Distributor Problems

[Leeboo]

Ok this keeps deleting itself as I type it.... so to cut short... my 1.2 carb Nova lost all throttle tonight while driving, thought I ran out of petrol, but it turned out that I had suddenly lost spark. Turned out that the big centre point in the rotor arm and centre point in dis cap were wrecked... bit burnt, maybe IIRC a bit worn or mangled. I have the spare parts to fix it, but I want to know what might have caused it? I was thinking timing, but I got that set a month ago with timing light after I changed head gasket. Cheers

[jimbob-mcgrew]

the coil does shoot 40-60 odd thousand volts thru that lil pin on the cap, so its understandable if it gets razzled lol

maybe just knakered parts or an enthusiastic coil ?

[Leeboo]

Perhaps you are right.... when I was changing the rotor arm and cap today... I noticed that the bit of metal in the centre of the rotor arm has completely gone, just a small bit of metal on the outside of the rotor arm remains. And theres a crater where the centre bit of metal used to be! So yes it got well and truely razzled, perhaps this is normal but it looks like a nuclear bomb went off inside the dis cap lol.

All good now after being changed tho

[jimbob-mcgrew]

coroners report : "nuclear bombs gone off inside the dizzy cap" lol

[yayoboy]

as said m8 just wear and tear