I also noticed the rotor on my car presses down on the ring, the distributor
and short block are from a Alpine GT there must be a slight difference. Jim
66SVx2
jeyerman@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> The problem might be caused by the rotor pressing down too hard on the
>plastic "ring". I noticed when I installed an ignitor in my Hillman that the
>rotor didn't sit right-I filed/sanded about 1/8 inch off the bottom of the
>rotor and then it all seemed to fit well.
>
> Jan
>
> Ed Esslinger <eee1@snowhill.com> wrote:
> > Yesterday, While driving my Alpine,(and it could happen on a Tiger too) it
> suddenly developed a miss and seem to be running on only two cylinders. I
> was able to limp about 30 miles home. I suspected a blown head gasket
> between two of the cylinders. This morning I checked the compression and
> found nothing wrong. I connected my timing light and found the Ignition to
> be very erratic. Suspecting something might be wrong with the Ignitor, I
> started to substitute a set of points in it's place. When I removed the
> magnet timing ring.it came apart and the little loose magnets were still in
> the distributor. I removed the magnets and replaced the timing ring with
> one from another of my Alpines . Now every thing is back to normal.-And it
> runs GREAT-Cool Cat Eddie ,1 S3 GET,3 ESP's, 2 ESP's, 2 MAKE Tigers
> Deep South Rep TE/AE
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