distributor guts??
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:51 pm
I took apart my 85 gtv6 distributor a couple of days ago in order to lock the centrifugal advance, and remove the vacuum advance and the hall sensor pickup. I am converting to a crank sensor and megasquirt so I don't need the hall sensor in the distributor any more.
What I discovered is that this distributor doesn't have a centrifugal advance mechanism but it appears to have some left over parts for it from the factory including a funny spring that doesn't seem to do anything. The distributor shaft doesn't rotate relative to the plate at the bottom so the spring doesn't stretch or compress. Does anyone know what this spring is for? Maybe my distributor is seized up or something?
(Sorry about the crappy cell-phone picture)
What I discovered is that this distributor doesn't have a centrifugal advance mechanism but it appears to have some left over parts for it from the factory including a funny spring that doesn't seem to do anything. The distributor shaft doesn't rotate relative to the plate at the bottom so the spring doesn't stretch or compress. Does anyone know what this spring is for? Maybe my distributor is seized up or something?
(Sorry about the crappy cell-phone picture)