Hesitation...again...

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Dhammadad
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Re: Hesitation...again...

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icosahedron wrote:Had the same with mine for a long time. The problem would come and go, never at idle or high revs but always after changing gears at low revs while the engine warmed up. Eventually solved it by cleaning and lightly oiling the spinning weights in the bottom of the distributor.

Is this much of a job? I mean I've had the dizzy cap off to clean it up but no further than that?
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Re: Hesitation...again...

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Dhammadad wrote:
icosahedron wrote:Had the same with mine for a long time. The problem would come and go, never at idle or high revs but always after changing gears at low revs while the engine warmed up. Eventually solved it by cleaning and lightly oiling the spinning weights in the bottom of the distributor.

Is this much of a job? I mean I've had the dizzy cap off to clean it up but no further than that?

Any update on this, can dizzy cap just be removed and oiled from there?
1983 1.9 DG WBX Automatic

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