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Rich47
Joined: 20 Apr 2018 Posts: 3
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:46 pm Post subject: dodgy rotor arms |
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Anyone else suffered from dodgy rotor arms?
I have had 2 fail the same way. HT eats through the plastic and shorts to the distributor shaft.
One failed in under 50 miles.
I bought a replacement from Green Spark Plugs so I will see how this one fares. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK
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Rich47
Joined: 20 Apr 2018 Posts: 3
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: | Welcome to the forum.
I've had one rotor arm pack up in no time at all, there seem to have been quite a few ropey ignition parts in circulation for quite some time now. Hopefully your purchase from GSP will work out ok.
RJ |
Thanks RJ.
It's very annoying to have a new part fail so soon...
Watch this space!
Three attempts to embed a picture later....
[img]0418-2 by richard markham, on Flickr[/img]
[img]0418_1 by richard markham, on Flickr[/img] |
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Brad1380
Joined: 28 Mar 2017 Posts: 5
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1950 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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I agree about Distributor Doctor, who sells his[?] own rotor arms.....Seems [the Chinese?] were contracted to make black arms, and used too much carbon in the plastic mix..
There are a lot of duff repro [repop] small service parts out there.... |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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roverdriver
Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 1210 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:49 am Post subject: |
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I had a rotor arm fail when about 2,000 miles from home in our 1959 Rover 90. We were on the way back from Alice Springs- any help would be about 200 k's further on. I had two spares on board and decided to fit the one that I had bought only a few months previously. About 100 miles along the road, that one failed. I fitted the very old N.O.S. one, completed the journey and several years later, it is still fitted and still working well.
Both of the replacements were Bosch red ones. _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking. |
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Kleftiwallah
Joined: 27 Oct 2016 Posts: 222 Location: North Wiltshire
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks for that post, I'll get mine under the magnifying glass!
Cheers, Tony. _________________ It may work in practice, but not necessarily in theory! |
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peteleo
Joined: 02 Mar 2017 Posts: 3 Location: San Mateo, California
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:42 am Post subject: |
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With rheumatic fingers I have now fitted a 123 distributor so no more rotor arms for me these days.But in the boot is still a red one from the doctor, just in case it can be of use to someone else one day. And it being drive it day, it may even be this afternoon. |
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MrWhite
Joined: 09 May 2017 Posts: 105
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