Re: distributor q's - and licence light

["Ryan Schuermann" <rts@nol.net>]

thanks, however I can't believe you shelled out for a new 
distributor..at the worst the hall sender fried and that can be 
replaced for about $50. I took my distributor to a mechanic
along with another distributor that i knew the hall sender was good, 
but had a bent shaft, and he made one good one out of the two, the
rocco is running great and I just slipped a 20$ to the mechanic. Prev
the one with the bent shaft had that hall sender put in around 20k 
ago and performed flawlessly since then untill i wrecked the Rocco.

now i have $230 to spend on a rebuilt alternator =] and starting to 
get some of the fiberglass all fixed up.

hrm..off topic but rocco related anyone know where to get a licence 
plate holder with integrated light?? My rocco has a custom fiberglass
piece between the tail lights and the plate is mounted to that, which
does not alow the 2 lights in the hatch to shine on the plate..last 
thing I want to do is give the cops a valid reason to pull me over 
and ticket me.

 Ryan

> I had oily gunk in my distributor for a while too.  It's probably the 
> seal at the end of the cam.  I would say that it's bad because my 
> distributor finally died.  One day the car was running and then it 
> stopped.  That was it.  So I would suggest getting a better distributor.  
> I got a new one which was $250 I think.  My mechanic told me not to use 
> a rebuilt one because they are not reliable with this particular 
> distributor.
> 
> The "euro" 16V distributor will not do anything with a CIS-E car.  The 
> Hall sensor in our distributors goes to an ECU which controls the 
> advance.  The "euro" distributor would have a recurve to work with a 
> vacuum advance, knock sensorless system, which the US 16v's do not have.  
> To recurve a 16v distributor, you would have to use a "chip" in the 
> ignition ECU.  No one has done this to my knowledge.  The KE-Jetronic 
> that our cars use is the last step of FI before Motronic where ignition 
> and fuel mixture is handled by the same computer.  It's kind of a bummer 
> only because there is no performance chip we can throw in to change the 
> fuel and timing maps.  
> 
> HTH,
> Ian Overholt
> '88 16v
> 
> 
> From: "Ryan Schuermann" <rts@nol.net>
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 16:37:46 +0000
> Subject: distributor q's
> Reply-to: rts@nol.net
> 
> hey, i have a dis but theres oily gunk inside of it..where thehall 
> sender is and such (behind the plastic cap), is this bad, is the dist 
> no good? is it suppose to be as clean in there as in the cap?
> 
> also whats up with the 'euro' 16v dist ron is selling? any comments 
> on it?whats the differenct? more advance due to different springs and 
> weights or something?
> 
> Ryan
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