27-03-2019, 03:54 PM
I also have always carried a spare distributor.
The original distributors are often very worn. A lot of the spares supplied have poor reliability, rotor arms & points especially. I used the original DS4 for quite a long time. It stopped on me once but I revived it. It did it again a couple of years later and I couldn't revive it at the roadside. I had a spare Bosch which got me home but never worked properly. My DK4A works but is far from perfect and I now carry that as the spare.
In other words the old 'old tech' I have found no more reliable than new 'new tech'.
The original distributors are often very worn. A lot of the spares supplied have poor reliability, rotor arms & points especially. I used the original DS4 for quite a long time. It stopped on me once but I revived it. It did it again a couple of years later and I couldn't revive it at the roadside. I had a spare Bosch which got me home but never worked properly. My DK4A works but is far from perfect and I now carry that as the spare.
In other words the old 'old tech' I have found no more reliable than new 'new tech'.
Jim