[Healeys] Kip Motors rotors

[Richard Ewald]

I have seen broken dist caps due to worn distributors on several occasions
(other cars, not Healeys)  You might want to pull the dist and check not
only the side to side play in the dist shaft, but see if it moves up and
down also.
Good Luck
Rick

On 7/12/07, Richard Bittmann <edmyed at harbornet.com> wrote:
>
> Gary,
>
> I took some advice I got on the internet and bought 2 rotors from Kip and
> had
> them delivered 2nd day air for $60 thinking my rotor woes were over - not!
> The rotors arrived at 1:30 PM today so I changed the Napa rotor out with
> the
> new one and put the other in the bag for a spare.  This afternoon I drove
> 21
> miles to & from to have the front end aligned and on mile 21 the new rotot
> fell apart litterally in a cloud of plastic bits and brass dust.  Yep,
> another
> rotor failure.
>
> These last 2 failures have left 2 or 3 of the brass "contact lugs" in the
> disty cap with a worn edge.  Should I replace my new correct LUCAS cap? or
> will some wear be tolerated without ill effects?  Looks like it's back to
> Napa
> or somewhere.
>
> Richard Bittmann
> _______________________________________________
> richard.ewald at gmail.com
>
> Healeys at autox.team.net
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys