TR6 Life without Spark :(

[Tybalt]

probably the rotor

I had the same thing happen and it was the rotor. You could not tell by looking at the rotor; it looked fine. Just pop a new one on. Yeh get away from those guys.

Been there, done that, answer was bad rotor. I know that a bad batch of rotors went out at one time but that was a while back. Since it happened all of a sudden, my thoughts are look at the spring loaded contact in the center of the distributor cap and try a new rotor. You can't really just look at the rotor to see if it is bad as a general rule, just swap it out for a new one is easy enough to do.

Dr. Entropy mentioned something else I have seen on these cars but not experienced that myself in post #15 but I think he really nailed it in post #19.

 

[BierRunner]

In post #11 above you said

It appears that they didn't replace the cap. If they did, it would have been fixed.... just wonder what they actually did.

Yes, agree. They must have replaced the cap but not the rotor.

 

[bobhustead]

Post 16 injected ambiguity in saying the problem was the "rotor cap".
Bob

 

[Gliderman8]

Post 16 injected ambiguity in saying the problem was the "rotor cap".
Bob

Correct, exactly.

 

[BierRunner]

Post 16 injected ambiguity in saying the problem was the "rotor cap".
Bob

My bad. Looking back at the repair invoice, it was a bad rotor button. I was trying to be precise for you all and I blew it.

After 30 minutes with Google, rotor and rotor button seem to be used interchangeably, but I can’t believe that is true. At a minimum, it seems you can’t change the button without changing the rotor.

 

[DrEntropy]

"rotor button" is "BritSpeak" for rotor.