At 14:18 07/04/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Used to see quite a bit of this back when I working on them in the 1960s.
The carbon brush is a sandwich of soft hard soft, the soft is supposed to
touch the rotor, but can wear or break off leaving the hard centre section
grinding its way through the rotor. Solution is a new brush. Could
recognise this when performing a Crypton check as a stray short horizontal
line would appear on the top right of the screen.
>1) A fairly new rotor arm broke up recently, apparently because the
>spring inside had rusted. Fortunately the Luminition rotor was
>undamaged, and I just reverted to the old rotor. I now notice rapid wear
>of the brass contact, as if the carbon contact of the new cap were
>extra-tough. Can this be the case, so are distributor caps and rotor
>arms of different vintages not compatible? (The old rotor was working
>perfectly in the old cap, I just renewed it all to be on the safe side
>after an overhaul)
Used to get lots of fails with these angle drives, usually due to poor main
cable or poor routing of the main cable.
Be aware that there are different ones with gearing appropriate for the
final drive ratio.
Cheers
Roly
>3) I've just had the speedo angle drive fail at the gearbox. There is a
>2" length of flexible speedo cable, which I presume is supposed to have
>a square section at each end. The outer (angle drive) end was completly
>rounded off. I took another off a spare gearbox, and found that the same
>thing had happened to that one, except that it was rounded at the
>gearbox end.
>Do these commonly fail, why is only one end affected, rather than
>wearing evenly, and why don't they supply the bits of flexible cable
>separately? I've shelled out #30 for a complete new angle drive now, but
>maybe someone has a way of making a substitute cable?
>
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