Had a bit of a search around but couldn't find any relevant information on the subject. Old ea82 has been a little bit rough at idle lately and I put it down mostly to needing a few new parts like rotor button, disty cap, leads and plugs. Both my cars need this so I figured Id do them both at the same time but until I get the parts in I might just clean the crud off of the cap and rotor contacts. Opened it up and here's what I found,
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/652x487q90/850/mkbs.jpg)
can see where the rotor has been rubbing on this sensors plastic cover.
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/652x487q90/812/g9j2.jpg)
Either something as fallen into the reluctor or the sensor has come loose and moved into it, but I didn't see any damage on the pickups.
Now this one is the most confusing for me, I hope someone can shed some light onto it. I noticed that if I grabbed the rotor and rotated it, it moved upwards on the drive gear. This movement came from here,
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/652x487q90/203/fzil.jpg)
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/652x487q90/23/s1wt.jpg)
SO I filed the reluctor star back into shape, disassembled everything, cleaned and lubed it and put it back together, but I thought Id ask if this is normal?
To me It kind of looks like there's meant to be a ball bearing under the disty shaft as it has a divot in the head and in the end of the shaft.
Any opinions would be grateful.
Regards
Doug