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is the dust cap (under the rotor) keyed somehow? 200 1986

posted by  earthworm on  Mon Jun 14 06:51 CST 2004
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There is no earthly reason for a dust cap to have a locating notch, that of course does not mean that there will be none. And having thought this a little more, I see that am wrong. From the 60s and 70s, Borsh distributer bodies used a large notch to located the cap, the dust cover also was "notched" to fit into the notch and maintain the seal.

Later cars did not use a dust cover, and for many earlier ones, the cover was pitched by lazy mechanics like myself.

Most, but not all distributer caps will lock positively into place. The side clips spring tension will be strong enough to keep the cap from turning.

What we could have here is a case of a possible wrong distributer and/or the wrong cap.






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