I'm never going to get this stupid car finished!
I'm never going to get this stupid car finished!
Thats a Honda, right?
How in the world did that happen?
In reply to logdog:
Yes, 89 Civic LX 1.5. It's my special needs coworker's "new" car that I stupidly agreed to do the head gasket on because I'm not a shiny happy person. The really poor quality distributor that I rebuilt with new quality internals either had a crap casting or was dropped. I heard a pop when I was cranking it over and went to investigate. It was still in there but I saw a crack. Ugh.
Only if you buy me dinner first. 
Keep in mind the nobility of your actions; 'tis I think a general reflection of the quality of the gang on this board.
No good deed goes unpunished!
Hey, it might've cracked next week and caused an accident...maybe you were meant to find and fix it. 
Ruh-Roh Raggy
Well THERE's your problem!
(er, uh, the sticker... not the actual problem...)
bgkast wrote: Only if you buy me dinner first.
I was gonna say buy me a drink or two and ask how big the 'stache was these days.
In reply to Hungary Bill:
Thanks for clarifying. 
a little JB Weld and it will be good as new..
I agree with JFX001. If that had broken loose at a busy intersection or somewhere out on the road, it would be a much bigger and more expensive problem to fix. You've saved the day!
It's a d15, you can fall down and find parts for it. :)
Having broken a lot of stuff in my day, im pretty sure that didn't 'just happen'.
On the plus side, though, it wont really stop it from working, either. My dad's mitsubishi has a broken distributor in the same way due to me using an improper o-ring on it (long story which may actually be relevant) and it is still working fine as his DD @ 262k.
Bam! All done, runs great. Berking finally. The "original" distributor had poor casting quality and had cracks all over. Popped a new dizzy in and it fired right up. A/C even blows ice cold. 
I got myself into a similar problem. Client had 600$, needs to either r&r or buy another car to replace 275k Bonneville. I am not looking forward to this.
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