A little Cardone Distributor info.
I was having a problem with my car the other day. 86, v6. I had a problem with it starting and it had been running a little rough. Next day, no start at all. No spark. So, no big deal, figure it's probably somewhere in the ignition system. Rather than track down where it's at specifically, I decide to replace the distributor and everything in it.It's old. I look at the cardone ones that Autozone has. It comes with everything but the cap and rotor. New ignition module, new pick up coil. Good price so I get it. There's a $10.00 core charge too.
After getting the old one out, I notice it's in fairly good shape mechanically. No slop in it and I notice it's identical to the cardone one. Sweet, rather than return it for the core, I figure I could rebuild this one and use it as a spare. With a car this old, and being my daily driver,I like to have a spare everything if possible.
So I take it apart to clean it up and put in a new pick up coil and notice what looks like a big gasket under the reluctor. I take the reluctor off and notice that the gasket is in several pieces. It does not come off in one piece. It's then that I notice that the "gasket" is magnetized! All the pieces stick together. I take the reuctor and hold it to a piece of steel and see that it's not magnetized. I assume the gasket-magnet is how the reluctor gets magnetized. Cool!
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But not so cool. I now need to replace this piece to have a working distributor. So I go online to try and find one, no luck. Then I said, I'll go to the source. I emailed Cardone asking what this was called and where I could get one.This is their reply.
Stanley Choynacky SChoynacky@cardone.com
Jan 23 (6 days ago)
to Website, Latia, me
Doug, thank you for your e-mail.
We just refer to it as a magnet. The magnet cannot be purchased separately.
Great, this piece can't cost much but without it I have a useless distributor. Guess I'll take it back for my $10.00
