Rotor "continuity" on an '84 Voyager???

I guess I'll try to answer this since nobody else has. (trying to remember the '79 1.7 rotor) The shutters would be connected since they are all 4 stamped from one piece of sheet metal. I remember there being a grounding tab that hits the top of the shaft to ground those shutters. I doubt that is to allow them to work, but instead it is to ground them to prevent spark from getting into the pickup. Oh, remembering, I did have to readjust the advance after changing the rotor (had changed the cap a few days earlier).

I don't know what the requirement is, but when the rotor on my 83 voyager had an intermittent ground/continuity the engine would NOT start.

I spent a bunch of time doing the trouble shooting routing as shown in the FSM. I did find a poor coil and a poor ground for "the computer" but the final detail was the rotor. I bought a new rotor as the FSM said to do, and the engine started and ran fine (still does). I did not adjust anything on the distributor on otherwise when I replaced the rotor.

Ken

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The rotor on my 85 Lebaron broke the locking tab on the rotor and it just spun loosely so car just conked out. Took me a week to stumble on the problem but boy that sure was cheap to fix : )