First of all, I'm not the owner of the car, but hopefully I can explain this without sounding too vague:
My boyfriend just bought a brand new distributor (sorry if I spell anything wrong) and it was beautiful. Was, being the op word. He wanted to wait for some warm weather to replace it in his 83 Honda Accord 4 cyl. Today our dogs knocked it off the counter. It's only about 2 feet up, so we're not worried about the interior of the unit. The question I have is:
his vacume advance inch long end, the one the tube goes on for the carb broke off in the fall. We can't find the other end anywhere and it's clean off. You can see the hole, it's just flat against the unit. New vacuume advances arn't too expensive, but are they easy to replace? It holds on with what looks like 2 screws. I'm sure there are many springs in the advance. Can this be done with basic screwdrivers, allen wrenches and socket sets or does this maybe require some special (as my boyfriend states) "feelers"?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't find any information about this on the internet anywhere. Only people talking about the fact they replaced the unit, not how they did it.