Distributor Rotor/Pickup Rust - How to Prevent?

James Thomas

"NO CLASS"
Re: Distributor Rotor/Pickup Rust - How to Prevent?

Look fellas...... bottom line is, some vehicles do this much worse than others and it depends on a lot of things like location / humidity / salt / washing under the hood / little green men from mars ect. Most all will RUST at least a little through the years but some are much worse. Nothing more nothing less. The little bit of rust it's self won't usually do bad things.... as long as it's a little bit. Like I said before, I have seen some real bad. I mean rust is rust and that makes metal go away... right?

If you don't like it (rust) then remove it and treat it to stop it's return. If it's just a small amount and you don't care about rust, then put the new cap back on and have a happy tune tune up :tup: !

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James
 

msheller

New member
Re: Distributor Rotor/Pickup Rust - How to Prevent?

Thanks for the advice... now I just checked continuity across the two pins of the plug for the pickup... is that enuff of a test? it looks f'n rusty in there!

matt

BigAl... said:
whats happening hear is, as the arc jumps across it creates ozone which loves to create rust. but as mentioned earlier it will NOT cause a problem. but as long as you guys have your distributors out you SHOULD/MUST!!! change your p/u coil. the youngest these little guys will be is 15 years old and they only cost about $20. you'd be surprised at how many of you have failing p/u coils and don't know it! have you ever noticed your rpm signal on a log to be very jagged? "p/u coil time"

Just my .02 worth

BigAl...
 
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