wow! That post does shed a lot of light to my problem. Seems like this is a common thing with the vortecs since 95. Looks like both 534BC and 1996LTOwner did something to the distributor. After checking around for the cap, rotor, wires, & plugs, it adds up quickly. And I can't just slap my wallet on the counter just yet. I'll try changing my cap & rotor 1st. Looking at the cap, it doesn't look like it can be adjusted though. It's not the regular round & tall cylinder shape ones that I'm used to, it's more flat like. Can anyone give me some pointers about this type of distributor. I adjusted the old cylinder ones before, but these are new to me.
On a different note, why haven't GM change their design to fix this & other problems? Like their doors, the rollers to stop the doors from crushing my legs when parked on a hill rusted out & bent & the spring just fell off. I saw the post to change the hinges but not the roller. My point is, the design is so complicated & yet fails so easily but they keep using it. It's logic like this that deters people to our foreign competitors.
Or maybe they think we're all rich and should change our vehicles every 3 years.
I'm not opening up a debate, just venting.
