This is because a defective distributor cap or rotor will reduce the efficiency of the combustion process in the engine, leading to more fuel being burned than what the engine requires to run.

The HEI Distributor has been a standard in the world of stand-alone electronic ingitions since 1974. We give our HEI Distributor a tune-up in the February 2013 issue of Car Craft Magazine.

This car has an old-fashioned distributor cap and rotor. Most likely, when you forded the Nile that night, you got water inside the distributor cap, and it’s causing the misfire by creating a ...