Noisy Distributor On Mi16

[Guest kernowboy]

Hi folks

 

I have recently just completed an Mi16 converion on me 1.9 GTi. The car is running totally fine but there is a real bad clanking noise coming from the distirbutor. Any ideas?

 

Cheers

[DrSarty 90 1 Cars]

If it runs fine, that's really strange, but I've had a rotor arm work loose. Alternatively and slightly worse, the arm could be well fitted but it screws to a metal foot which is torx bolted in (with a thread lock compound usually), which could have worked loose too/instead.

 

Sorry to state the obvious but have you checked that and also that there's nothing inside the cap that shouldn't be. Simply can't think of anything else.

 

Good luck - and please post your findings, if any.

 

Rich

Edited March 21, 2007 by DrSarty

[C_W 3 1 Cars]

Are you running the Motronic injection or the original innjection with a distributor adaptor? if the latter it could be the centre adpator is scraping??

[Guest kernowboy]

Are you running the Motronic injection or the original innjection with a distributor adaptor? if the latter it could be the centre adpator is scraping??

 

Yeah im running the latter but i was running another dizzy and it didnt make any noise at all but it kept cutting out randomly so i changed distributor to this one and it runs fine but makes a clanking noise. i had a look at it yesturday and nothing was lose. it sounds like the weights tbh think i might try and get another distributor and try that!