Thread: Care to guess what happend here?

same type of breakage, on the opposite side of the rotation

wow thats really odd.. maybe it is a billet defect, or maybe your right an using the b13.14 dists do it.. but i wouldn't think that would be a problem since it doesn't take any sort of force or actual effort to get the dist to go in.. and again it doesn't take much to turn the dist either..

straight up puzzled..

Yeah its weird, Your distributor clears the rocker shaft plug right? Its hard to tell how much of it is cut off but from the looks it seems like i had to take off more than that to clear that plug.

A way to check would be to put the distributor in and without putting the bolt see if when its full seated if there is still a gap between the distributor and the upper mounting point when its sitting straight in. if so that would explain the tension put onto the cam when tightened down

nope fits with room to spare.. the b14 ones you have to cut more iirc..

i would seriously thing the distributor would break before the cam. lol

The distro is flexible though so yeah. Yeah if you can check to see if there is any gap between the distro and the upper mounting point surface with it pushed in by hand all the way in and level. If there is a gap id imagine there would be some bad tension put on the cam from the distro. Who knows. Could just be a defect.

well i put like 10k on the stock cams no problems an same dist..

i'll check tomorrow just to be sure.. i have a mystery oil leak in that area that i've been thinking was the distributor so one way or another its comming back off for some further inspection an to try to fix the oil leak an check around to make sure its not commin from somewhere else..

I've seen this problem with 2.0VE exh.cam. When all said and done he still ran the cam with no issues. I personally would not.

im pretty sure the damage is done, the rest of the piece looks fine. if i was stayin n/a i would have no issues running these.

from what it sounds like, its a billet defect.

can it be welded

if someone took another cam even a de one from the junk yard an cut that small piece off then cleaned up this cam maybe make the chip more square to match the piece cut from the other cam then carefully welded then ya im sure it could be done.. little work with a dremel an it would look good as new..

however i think that's completely unnecessary because the chip is on the opposite side of the direction the engine spins, so moving the distributor will be no problem.