BenzBoy
Grand Master
Ok - it's not a Benz.
It's the PV. Cruising along comfortably and then a loss of power traced to the exploding distributor cap - see the picture below. A quick call to Paradise and the car is again mobile with new rotor button and cap. The old one had been checked in the last service a week ago and tested OK on the analyser and looked OK with a visual inspection.
The question is why did this happen? Yes, there is a vacuum advance and I have heard of older Holdens having this problem when petrol vapour is picked up by the vac advance line and causes an explosion inside the distributor. No, there are no centrifugal weights to come loose and do this as can happen in a Fiat - so please Brains Trust, what is the issue?
Regards,
Brian
It's the PV. Cruising along comfortably and then a loss of power traced to the exploding distributor cap - see the picture below. A quick call to Paradise and the car is again mobile with new rotor button and cap. The old one had been checked in the last service a week ago and tested OK on the analyser and looked OK with a visual inspection.
The question is why did this happen? Yes, there is a vacuum advance and I have heard of older Holdens having this problem when petrol vapour is picked up by the vac advance line and causes an explosion inside the distributor. No, there are no centrifugal weights to come loose and do this as can happen in a Fiat - so please Brains Trust, what is the issue?
Regards,
Brian