Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Distributor Rebuild

The Volvo P1800 that we have came with a Bosch 009 points distributor that came looking pretty sorry for itself. We decided to rebuild our distributor rather than replace it as it about a 500$ USD part. I stripped the distributor body and pulled out the points and condenser unit along with the base plate that is inside the casing. The engine mount for the distributor was jammed on the lower shaft and I had to use a steering wheel puller to carefully pull it off. The roll pin in the lower shaft could not be removed and was jammed so we decided to just clean it with it installed and not bother with removing it as everything was in good shape.Once everything was stripped and washed in the parts washer that was not going to be replaced the distributor body could be repainted with POR 15. I was then able to reinstall all of our new parts (condenser, points) along with the old cleaned parts back on the distributor.

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