Parts replacement

[yale]

In a very abbreviated form here is my story; I've owned my car for about four years and 40,000 miles at this point. (Some people say they're Yale miles which are a harder then normal miles So one thing led to another and it was time for an engine rebuild. With the engine apart and then back together the mechanic was unable to get the things to be where they should. So of course he started going through things to find out what was up. Eventually he checked the distributor. Now the same mechanic had sent the dizzy to Parts Klassik for a rebuild three years ago, so there was some surprise on his part to find that the rebuilt distributor had not actually been rebuilt at all! When we sent the dizzy back to Parts Klassic, they were surprised to see that it wasn't the distributor from my car that they had previously rebuilt at all(!) but one someone somewhere (during the last three years) had replaced with some bodged together unit.

The whole thing is just a bit surreal.

[blucille]

Smells fishy. Has anyone else been playing around in there? If the same mechanic sent the distributor to be rebuilt years ago and no one has touched it since, it's very odd, but if someone else had been playing around, I guess it's possible some parts swapping happened.

[Gearby]

Darn those little mischevious Porsche gremlins!!!

[yale]

Yeah, I am just trying to figure out the scenario where someone would take off my distributor and replace it with one that still works but is in not rebuilt shape. I mean, wth?

[robmog]

How was the car running before the latest tear down?
If fine, I'd guess the mechanic is pulling a fast one on you.
Hes the one to explain what's going on unless you've taken the car elsewhere for work.
I can't believe a random thief would swap your dizzy!
Very fishy.

[Gearby]

My best guess is that it happened when your engine was apart and being rebuilt. Either the dizzy got mixed up with another one at that time, or somebody swapped it out when everything was on the bench. Perhaps there were others working in the shop of the mechanic? Or other's who own Porsche's that might have visited the shop during the rebuilding of you engine?