[Healeys] Rotor Redux

Patton Dickson 57healey at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 17:06:33 MDT 2008


I can't comment on the carbon content being the cause, but I know that I had
two rotors that shorted to the Distributor Shaft.  Glad to hear they fixed
it.

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

> The latest Moss Motors email flyer indicates they are selling "higher
> quality" distributor rotors.
>
> They attribute the cause of failure of other aftermarket rotors to "high
> carbon content" causing the spark to short to the dist. shaft.  Haven't
> heard that theory presented here, but sounds plausible (presumably, they
> researched the problem).
>



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1957 Austin-Healey 100-Six "Built to run 'til the road wears out."


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