Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:48:17 GMT From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dmannopsam13.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: failure to start
On 18 Dec 2003 01:38:00 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:42:06 +0000, Grunff <grunffnopsam.com> wrote: >> >> ??? >> This sounds interesting. The rotor has a slot in it - it can >> only go on in one position. This is very important. If the rotor >> isn't in exactly the right position, then it won't work. >> >> How did you "end up turning the rotor a little"? You pushed it >> onto the shaft then turned it? > > I bet he was turning the rotor, with the shaft, against the centrifugal > advance springs? Yeah. That's what screwed it up, right? It is feasible to think that I can fix that myself, or should I just go ahead and call a real mechanic? >> Take the cap and rotor off. Examine the rotor and teh shaft. Do >> you see the slot I'm talking about? Push the rotor on so the >> slot lines up. You shouldn't be able to turn it now. If you can, >> something is wrong. > > It'll go a few mm. I haven't looked at the car since Tues. night, but I did see the alignment notch when I had the cap and rotor off that afternoon. When aligned properly the rotor doesn't really turn. It moves slightly due to tolerances in the notch. -D -- [Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dmannopsam13.dyndns.org