If you own an older car with a distributor, it can cause many problems when it goes bad. Here are seven reasons why you might need to replace it.

The window in the distributor cap provides access to a set of redesigned points that use a horizontally positioned breaker-point adjuster screw.

We make sure our ignition is getting power to our cylinders properly by installing a new distributor and external coil from MSD Ignition.

The Republic National Distributing Company has confirmed mass layoffs as it prepares to halt operations in California. The ...

Ignition Cap The ignition (or distributor) cap is where ignition wires that run to the spark plugs receive high-voltage current from the ignition coil.

If you're swapping points to an HEI distributor to lower maintenance requirements, you’re good to go, but will you be able to feel a difference if you do?

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.

Chevy's V8 engines have a different distributor design that might seem like a mystery to some trying to do a bit of tinkering under the hood.