OP, what's your best guess as to why the rotors broke; rotor not down all the way, or cap on crooked? I can't see "not down all the way" causing them to break.

(I also don't think of rotors "clicking" into place; seems to me they just slide on snugly).

 

Yeah, I had to SAND the disty shaft to get it to go on all the way.
It was a couple of things actually.
First off, the rotor wasn't on the shaft correctly.
Secondly, the cap was on the wrong way, I didn't realized they were directional.
Turned it around and it fit, sanded the shaft and it fit.

It runs great now! Runs like a bat outta hell. Very smooth power pick up. The contacts on the cap weren't as bad as some I've seen, but they had a bunch of carbon on them. Funny thing is, the old cap and rotor I took off look to be Accel units. What did I put on? Accel units.
Also routed the wires per the TSB. That was a bit obnoxious, but it's a lot better when you have NO wires on the cap.

 

"Secondly, the cap was on the wrong way, I didn't realized they were directional".

I think that's what did it. I don't think it'll sit down squarely if it's on backwards. But how did you put it on backwards with the wires still attached?

 

I transferred the wires over to the new cap.
That's how.

 

Duh. That makes sense. And you probably know that the cap is usually marked with a little "1" where wire 1 goes, but in the dark, and where that distributor is located, easy to miss. Glad you got it running great.

 

So THATS what that "1" was for. Shiz, Imma have to go look at my firing order and compare it to the old cap. Not that it doesn't run well, it runs even better now.

 

Is the new cap identical to the old one?

We really can't help without some pics.

 

^Yeah, but everything is sorta out now and the truck runs fine.
Now this is just a discussion thread of how I screwed stuff up.

 

He's all set. Old and new caps were almost undoubtedly the same; OP just had a brain fart, like I did a couple of posts ago in this thread.

 

Here's the carnage:

Old one is on the left, new one I broke on the right.


Cap isn't TOO bad..


What is the little rubber thing? There is a hole that goes down into the cap. On the old one the hole is stopped up, it wasn't punched out...the new one is open though. Both caps have this.

Thanks guys!