| snausher |
Tue May 23, 2006 5:53 pm |
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I was attempting to change my condensor out, had the distributor removed, and when I took the condensor mounting screw out of the housing and ground wire nut the wire broke off at the solder blob on the breaker plate. Obviously this was a failed previous repair, as the solder blob is pretty big and ugly. I don't think I can get any solder to stick this old, dirty, oily wire. And not to that big blob of solder.
Any ideas on what to do? I hate to replace the distributor for this. The strands of this wire (seems like 18 gauge or so?) are extremely fine, and obviously have to be flexible for the vacume advance movement. Is this wire available somewhere? I guess I can disassemble further, clean all of this up, and solder in some new wire if I can find some proper stuff. |
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| Glenn |
Tue May 23, 2006 5:55 pm |
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| Take it apart and use parts cleaner to clean the wire and the contact plate. The solder the wire back in place. |
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| snausher |
Tue May 23, 2006 6:17 pm |
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| How hard is it to knock out that pin in the driving dog, to take the distributor apart? I gave it a few whacks but it doesn't budge. |
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| snausher |
Wed May 24, 2006 12:04 pm |
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As the man said. It wasn't that big of a deal.
Took it all apart (that pin holding the dog to the dist. shaft sure is a tight fit), cleaned it up, and soldered a new piece of wire (nice, woven solder wick from Radio Shack) to the nut and to the breaker plate. Used a nice heavy 250 watt solder gun. |
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| downlow68 |
Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:47 pm |
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| Is that wire needed? |
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| bill may |
Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:21 pm |
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downlow68 wrote: Is that wire needed?
yes |
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