Went on ebay to carry out a simple task, buy a new rotor arm, but theres a crazy choice and a very varied price range from as high as £20!! to £5. Anyone know if theres a difference. I really struggle see that there is but at that price range.

Cheaper ones are like this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lucas-DRB464C ... _500wt_969

Expensive ones like this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/lucas-DRB511C ... _500wt_969

How can it be difficult choosing a rotor arm lol! :/

Or is this a stupid question?!

top one looks like the one i got. Got mine from hellfrauds for about £4

The dearer one acts as a sort of primitive rev limiter iirc.

sven360 wrote:The dearer one acts as a sort of primitive rev limiter iirc.

ah, yes i've heard about that before. Think ill get the cheaper one then!

thanks

Avoid the red limiting one. Bosch are the OE. I have their part numbers for both cap and rotor somewhere...

cheers

James

sick! I ordered the bosch. Hopefully this will finally solve the volvos issues :/

I bought a rotor arm, but couldn't work out how to get the old one off!!

Apologies for slight hi-jack, but can anyone advise the best method? It looks to me like forcing it could damage other things around it.

It should just lift off Thats what mine does. Take the dizzy off of course lol!

Evoman wrote:It should just lift off Thats what mine does. Take the dizzy off of course lol!

Hmm, mine doesn't. Giving it as big a yank as I can but it just stays put. Was thinking of getting a flathead screwdriver under it but got nervous of wreaking damage. Cissy that I am.

Na I dont blame you. The worst thing you can do is damage something when your trying to repair something else. This happens alot too! Urmm sounds stuck

Sounds like it ain't been changed for a while,I'd go for the levering off method but am ready to be shot down in flames

Yrs gone by,people put a dab of grease on the shaft(EASY VND )before fitting the rotor arm.

if you are worried about breaking something by levering, put a small thin bit of wood or something under the screwdriver to prevent damage to whatever you are levering against.

Mine just popped off i greased mine before refitting