Picked up a 93 protege lx from a guy said "his mom was coming home from the tire store and it just quit".
I saw that he had replaced the cap, rotor, wires and coil with new, all to no avail, and then he got into the distributor
presumably to replace something inside it. He was done with the car at that point and that's when it became mine.
I know from experience some distributors don't like being taken apart, and so I proceded
pick up another (used) distributor instead, as well as another igniter, and another condenser at my local pick-n-pull.
The igniter, and condenser were apparently still good, but when I replaced the distributor it started right up and has been starting (at least 15 times) and running very good for about 60 miles.
Now this distributor has quit (I had a spare to verify this) again, the condenser and igniter work with the replacement distrib but Is there something else going on
I'm unaware of, or need to know about that's causing the distibutors to fail or is this just a crappy coincidence?
By the way, I originally swaped in another BP10 ecu before I tried the first replacement distrib, as well as checked for good grounding on everything, but once I determined the distributor was the final culpret, I did put the original BP10 ecu back in.
I'm On my way to get another distributor tomorrow, hopefully for the last time.
I saw that he had replaced the cap, rotor, wires and coil with new, all to no avail, and then he got into the distributor
presumably to replace something inside it. He was done with the car at that point and that's when it became mine.
I know from experience some distributors don't like being taken apart, and so I proceded
pick up another (used) distributor instead, as well as another igniter, and another condenser at my local pick-n-pull.
The igniter, and condenser were apparently still good, but when I replaced the distributor it started right up and has been starting (at least 15 times) and running very good for about 60 miles.
Now this distributor has quit (I had a spare to verify this) again, the condenser and igniter work with the replacement distrib but Is there something else going on
I'm unaware of, or need to know about that's causing the distibutors to fail or is this just a crappy coincidence?
By the way, I originally swaped in another BP10 ecu before I tried the first replacement distrib, as well as checked for good grounding on everything, but once I determined the distributor was the final culpret, I did put the original BP10 ecu back in.
I'm On my way to get another distributor tomorrow, hopefully for the last time.
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