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[TrailBeast]

This is what happens when you use a Napa MO3000 rotor and don’t get your distributor cap back on exactly straight.

The MO3000 rotor has a 030 longer tip.

 

[toolmanmike]

This is what happens when you use a Napa MO3000 rotor and don’t get your distributor cap back on exactly straight.

The MO3000 rotor has a 030 longer tip.

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Oops. Why do they even make that rotor unless it's for a different application?

 

[TrailBeast]

Oops. Why do they even make that rotor unless it's for a different application?

I know it keeps the burning of the tip and cap contacts down from the HEI spark jump, but I’m pretty sure that’s not why they made it.
Good question.

 

[junkyardhero]

one of those you learn and then say: i'll never do that again!

.... until you do it again.

 

[TrailBeast]

one of those you learn and then say: i'll never do that again!

.... until you do it again.

Yes because I thought I didn’t do it this time.

 

[RustyRatRod]

I'm pretty certain that rotor also fits some Ford applications, but that wouldn't explain why they make it longer.

 

[TrailBeast]

I'm pretty certain that rotor also fits some Ford applications, but that wouldn't explain why they make it longer.

That sounds familiar.

 

[67Dart273]

An annoying story from the old days

In the 70's, stationed at NAS Miramar, San Diego, we had an E6 with a 64 Chev. He had taken it to Aamco Transmission, gotten raped on the price, and next time he and I were on duty, showed me the broken rotor. "How, why, etc." I told him Aamco had not been careful, dropped the engine and the distributor had hit the firewall.

AND A FEW DAYS LATER, he was back and turned out after I'd talked with him, the poorly re-installed battery cable had welded to the hot exhaust, ruined the cable and the BATTERY. Aamco would not do a damn thing.