Yesterday on the way back from Akron the 3000 developed an intermittent mild
miss, as if one cylinder was misfiring. This morning I removed the
distributor cap and saw that the nut securing the contact set was a bit
loose--I
tightened the nut, replaced the cap and went for a test run. I got about 1/4
mile
and the car died. I again removed the distributor cap and the rotor was
missing.
I found one piece of bakelite and the brass arm on top of the distributor
plate. Upon disassembling the distributor I found the arm rivet, the
springplate
that goes inside the rotor and another coil spring about 3/4" long laying in
the body of the distributor --this was not an advance spring nor the spring
under the cap contact--those were all intact. I can't find any springs in the
distributor--any thoughts here? It is definitely larger than either of the
above.
There was a fine shower of brass filings throughout the distributor--should I
be concerned with the shaft bearing surface? Also the advance diaphragm was
inoperative--who sells these parts? The distributor has the following numbers
stamped into the body:
DM6A406620
PEG 560
Thanks in advance--Michael Oritt
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