How to Check the Rotor Button

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Nate McCullough. In this clip we are going to talk about one of the maintenance items involved in a major tune-up or vehicle overhaul. The item we are going to talk about is the distributor rotor. Your vehicle may or may not in fact have one. If it has a distributor, it’s going to have one. Pretty much to access the distributor rotor you do need to remove the cap. The cap removal is going to vary from make and model. This particular vehicle has two mounting screws. The distributor rotor in my opinion should be checked approximately every 50,000 miles. However, for your application refer to the vehicle manufacturer’s recommended specific maintenance interval. Remove this lower screw here and slide our cap off. The cap location and rotor location as I said earlier is going to vary vehicle to vehicle. Also the mounting style of the rotor is going to vary. Most of them just slide on. This one in particular is just going to slide off, just like so. Just for the sake of film, we are going to assume this is a new part. There is no adjustment or maintenance you can perform on one of these. Like I said for me, I am going to replace it every 50,000 miles. However in your application, refer to the vehicles specified maintenance interval. The rotor is going to pop back on in place. They will only fit one way, so don’t worry about trying to fit in on more than it can. Once it slides onto place, you have pretty much reinstalled the vehicles distributor cap. If any of your plug wires slipped off, it is a good idea to make sure to pop them back on; we had one come off. We will go ahead and stick that guy back on there. That’s in general distributor rotor; r & r. Like I said earlier that is going to vary from make to model."