It's not only cars equipped with Pertronix & such ignitions. There have been many reports of "lucas" branded rotors, actually made in China or India, or somewhere, failing.
Different people have found different solutions. I personally am using a 40 year old USA made rotor that shows no signs of failing. I don't plan on ever changing it.
The problem with the recent Lucas rotors is thought by some people to be caused by over crimping the rivet which holds the brass arm to the insulator. This causes a microscopic crack in the insulator & a short path to ground at the distributor shaft. The factory may or may not have corrected the problem. Either way, there are likely to be hundreds of defective rotors still in dealers stocks. The old rotor that I am using has no rivet to start with.
I removed the rivet from a recently purchased Lucas rotor, warmed the insulator, & seated the arm in epoxy. Ran it on the car for about 500 miles with no problem, & keep it as a hopefully reliable spare. The thinking was that the epoxy would fill any small crack & there would be no rivet to worry about.
Someone may have found a source for good rotors, but I'm not sure where.
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Edit: A mistake that sometimes happens is that someone gets a shorter four cylinder rotor on a six cylinder distributor. The longer spark path makes the problem worse.
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