So, I recently had my lower intake gasket fail. Being pretty broke I decided to fix it myself. Well, because of scheduling issues It took me a few weekends of work, but I eventually got everything pulled off, new gasket put on and reassembled. Well.. aside from the little spark plug wire issue (anyone have an old wire laying around ) the only issue I've run into is I lost the 2 bolts that hold down the cap on the rotor. I cand find them anywhere! If I buy a new cap, will it come with those bolts? or am I going to have to make a trip to the dealership?
I'm such a moron
Started by chinweasle, Dec 04 2006 12:17 PM
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 12:37 PM
A new cap will come with the bolts.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 12:40 PM
| QUOTE (Jigg @ Dec 4 2006, 12:37 PM) |
| A new cap will come with the bolts. |
ok... looks like I'l be buying a new cap then. Thank Jigg.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 12:54 PM
I lost them when I did my motor, ended up just using a few screws i had laying around at my buddys shop. That was 5k ago and no problems since.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 12:57 PM
| QUOTE (FirefightinBlazer @ Dec 4 2006, 11:54 AM) |
| I lost them when I did my motor, ended up just using a few screws i had laying around at my buddys shop. That was 5k ago and no problems since. |
exactly........why would you go buy a new cap just for some simple screws/bolts? I keep tons of spare screws and bolts for this very thing.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 01:16 PM
| QUOTE (Jackson @ Dec 4 2006, 12:57 PM) | ||
exactly........why would you go buy a new cap just for some simple screws/bolts? I keep tons of spare screws and bolts for this very thing. |
agreed
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 01:21 PM
| QUOTE (Jackson @ Dec 4 2006, 01:57 PM) | ||
exactly........why would you go buy a new cap just for some simple screws/bolts? I keep tons of spare screws and bolts for this very thing. |
Because if you don't find the same exact screw that was in there before, you chance cracking the plastic on the distributor itself. Hell, if you don't clean the threadlock out with the new screws you chance cracking it. Once it cracks, it's a PITA to fix, you can try glueing/jbwelding but it usually just cracks again. When the one screw comes loose, so does your cap, and your truck runs like crap.
Or maybe he hasn't changed the cap in awhile?
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 01:24 PM
good point.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 02:22 PM
it hasn't been changed in probably 50k miles, so I might as well change it. The stupid plug wire that I snapped in two though is another story.. I just replaced those plugs probably 10k miles ago 
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