Rotor arm shatter and dizzy cap explodes!!!

primesera

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Yup, you have read right, I started the car drove about 5 metres then the engine stopped. Tried to start it to hear odd plastic banging noises then nothing. I suppose being so close to my house I was lucky.

Pushed it back to my drive and left it as I was due to watch a movie at the flicks.

Checked it this morning to find the dizzy cap had two holes in it and looking into the cap I saw a shattered rotor arm. The electrodes at he sides of the cap had been bent out too.

I've had a look online on other forums (not starlet related) and it comes up with just cheap rotor arms or bearings going in the distributor...

Anyone else ever seen this?
 

bucketep91

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happened to my glanza 2ce! turned out to be the wrong screws that hels the rotor arm on, they wer too short and wer loosening off and causeing it to fly about inside the dizzy cap
 
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