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#1
03-10-2004, 03:33 PM
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How does the Rotor manage to fall off?
I was driving one day, and my rotor screw somehow popped off inside the dizzy, and the rotor fell off. I thought I messed up my engine for a couple of minutes. I put it back in though. How does this happen? I was pretty sure that I tightened it well-enough last time (even used a small ratchet to tighten it. Can you prevent this?
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03-10-2004, 03:47 PM
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put a little drop of blue lock-tight on the bolt , that should help
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03-10-2004, 04:14 PM
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Re: How does the Rotor manage to fall off?
Yeah a little Loctite should be able to keep that bolt in place, that's wierd though this is the first time that I have heard of a rotor bolt falling off. Crazy, well at least you didnt damage your engine.
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#5
03-10-2004, 04:30 PM
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Re: How does the Rotor manage to fall off?
happened to me twice, on two seperate cars. loctite fixes that
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#6
03-10-2004, 04:34 PM
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Dang. This happened to me every day for a week. I'd try to climb this massive hill, and about half way up, the screw would come out and I'd be by the road side wearing a suit playing with my dizzy.
I finally replaced the rotor and the screw and got it on there really tight...and then the whole distributor quit on me. Shoulda got loctite. Flunky PS-The fun part was having a dead motor and needing to rotate the distributor to get it to just the right spot. I'd put the car in gear and let it roll backwards for a foot.
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#7
03-10-2004, 05:27 PM
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I've heard that you can put in your rotor wrong? Does it really make a difference? Something about 180 degrees off or something?
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03-10-2004, 06:06 PM
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Re: How does the Rotor manage to fall off?
ive had this happen once. i had no loctite on hand and ended up using silicon sealer. works like a charm and is still kickin 10k miles later
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#9
03-10-2004, 06:15 PM
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Do you just apply loctite after you've screwed in the screw tightly?
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03-10-2004, 06:32 PM
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Re: How does the Rotor manage to fall off?
no you put it on the threads of the screw before you put it in.
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#11
03-10-2004, 07:50 PM
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So does it matter at all where the screw is when you take off the dizzy? I've heard that you can install the rotor 180 degrees off or something?
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03-10-2004, 07:58 PM
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Re: How does the Rotor manage to fall off?
not on our cars, the rotor should be shaped on the inside kinda like a D so it only fits on the dizzy the same way.
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03-10-2004, 10:33 PM
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I could be wrong but I'm hearin a common theme...Loctite...
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03-10-2004, 10:54 PM
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Re: How does the Rotor manage to fall off?
Josh you are a true smartass...you're learning well from me, lol.
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