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Dizzy Cap

Not the most exciting post but one for the file, as it were…

New distributor cap and rotor arm was picked up today from the post office where it has been sat for two weeks. Took all of 2 minutes to swap over the parts, the old dizzy cap had severe corrosion to one of the connections and the centre pin had snapped. Oddly the van was running fine before I disturbed it…. The rotor arm was showing a tiny bit of wear.

So another job jobbed, maybe we’ll actually get away in the van if it ever stops raining…..

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Various goodies arrived from Coastal Motorhomes and after tracking down some 15w40 Mineral oil and waiting for the rain to stop, it was up on the ramps.

After a suitable amount of faff and more oil spillage than normal (rushing to beat the rain), Rudolph has fresh:

  • Oil
  • Air filter
  • Spark plugs
  • Mileage 58079 (4251 since service Sept last year)

The fuel filter was changed before our August holiday.

The centre pin from the dizzy cap fell out when I popped it off to access the lower nuts to the air filter housing. I put it back in, held by a blob of grease and the van fired up and ran fine – it didn’t catch instantly as it normally does when warm so a new dizzy cap and rotor is inbound.

I also removed the tape from the headlights and realised that due to work being done on the house, we’ve not been away since August!

 

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After numerous packages arriving spread over several weeks and a visit to the local ECP, the van is now freshly serviced at 47250 miles. I undertook:

  • Oil and oil filter change
  • Air filter
  • Fuel filter
  • New spark plugs
  • HT leads
  • Distributor cap
  • Rotor arm

My neighbour came to the rescue with an old Mini plug removal tool after my specially bought from Halfords tool wouldn’t fit down the holes..

Rudolph is now running like a (French) Swiss watch…. …with tappets and a slight blow to the exhaust..

Onwards!

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