Fixing a Moscovitch in Guantanamo

[kiva667]

A friend of mine showed up at my house  with a faulty distributor- I don’t know what he did but he took the distributor apart, stuck a rolled-up piece of paper in it, and got it going.

 

Gave it a couple whacks with a hammer, too.

 

My Contribution was pointing out an oily rag left in the engine compartment near some unwrapped wires and pointing out that there might be a fire hazard. Laughs all around and rag quickly removed.

['76mintgrün'02]

I had to look up Moscovitch... here's a pretty one!

 

I wonder what he did with the rolled up piece of paper.  I could see using a folded one to approximate the points' gap.  I wish I'd been there for that.  Sounds like my kind of fun.

[kiva667]

The real fun with these cars is that most of them have plastic  jugs in the trunk with a hose that runs to the engine- instant gas tank. The original tanks rotted away in the last century.

 

Now that I think about it the paper was more folded than rolled up - most likely to approximate the gap in the points ?

Edited May 5, 2019 by kiva667