Distributer Exploded, Have you seen this before? And do you have a spare? Options

[Millerwelds]

2.0 Djet. I changed out the plate due to a disconnected ground about a year ago and cleaned and lubed everything at that time. It has worked fine since then, til yesterday. Went to start the car and it did not sound right. Then no spark. Fiddled with a few things to make sure the wiring on the coil did not rattle loose etc, tried again and the distributer rotated 180 degrees and exposed this fancy new hole.

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Towed it home and dismantled the distributer this morning to find the following.




It had been wearing away for a while based on the metal shavings. The shavings are not brass / bronze from the normal wear of the rotor /cap.



Notice the wear on the FI trigger points plate too



Part numbers for reference



Here is a picture of the car for good measure. She looks real good (sitting in the garage!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[green71]

My car did the same thing -- shot the piece clean through the side of the distributor housing -- but not before it stove up the distributor altogether . . . which stopped the distributor drive shaft, which is driven by a BRASS gear on the crankshaft (or camshaft, don't recall for sure). The brass gear lost the fight, and I wound up with brass chunks and shavings in my engine case and a good reason to do an engine rebuild. You should try to get a look at that gear to see if it suffered any damage; you wouldn't want that stuff sloshing around in your engine.

Mark