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garryv84
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 9:54 pm Post subject: Who rebuilds 84 vanagon distributors? |
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| I cant find anyone that does, please help. thanks. |
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K58
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Go Westy, but last time I checked they were out of stock.
Contact them |
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Randy in Maine
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r39o
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Find a user named Glenn. He is "Mr. 010" distributor. He rebuilds dizzys. Maybe he will step up a few decades and start to do these.
http://www.glenn-ring.com/
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Bercilak
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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I got two from GoWesty, but they don't do it themselves. Both had problems and had to be returned, leaving me with a very scrappy looking, but functional OEM dizzy.
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The first dizzy leaked at the nipple
The second wouldn't spring back when the throttle was released
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edit: out of fairness, I want to add that GoWesty were easy to deal with, and very prompt in replacing the first non-working dizzy, and accepting them both for return.
Who knows, maybe GoWesty looking for someone better? I didn't know what to do myself, but the original was better than either rebuilt, so I stuck with it.
There is an O'Reilly's close by to me that is the local warehouse, so they tend to have anything I want on-hand (i.e. alternator, back-up light switch, both of which they had in stock) so I've been tempted to go to them for a replacement dizzy. I don't know that they have 'em, but they've been pretty good so I'm willing to consider that option.
There are enough parts/pieces from NAPA and others that are reasonably good quality that I'm happy to use those parts if I can.
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K58
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Bercilak wrote: |
I got two from GoWesty, but they don't do it themselves. Both had problems and had to be returned, leaving me with a very scrappy looking, but functional OEM dizzy.
For the record:
The first dizzy leaked at the nipple
The second wouldn't spring back when the throttle was released
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whoa, thanks for the heads up.
I'm on a waiting list...err, i was on a waiting list 
I saw that NAPA has them (not Bosch) but am unsure of the quality. |
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Glenn 
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| r39o wrote: |
Find a user named Glenn. He is "Mr. 010" distributor. He rebuilds dizzys. Maybe he will step up a few decades and start to do these.
http://www.glenn-ring.com/ |
I only work on the older cast iron distributors and have no plans to work on the newer ones. Internal parts availability is the problem with them..
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crowinghen
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Yeah give them a call- I'm pretty sure they'll do it. Real nice people too, at least on the phone when I called them.
Susie
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