What is "distributor cap"

Usage examples of "distributor cap".

Something let loose in the pile of rock up by the Distributor Cap.

Pulled the distributor cap and left a note on the windshield saying I was having engine trouble and would be back in a few hours, just in case anybody should get nosy.

He put the distributor cap down on his table and went off to fill the kettle.

He picked up the octopus-thing that a been lying on the pavement and she saw it was a distributor cap - her father had pointed that out to her once when he had been tinkering with their car.

There are eight plugs, four on each side, and that's right - eight cylinders, eight sparkplugs - but there's no distributor cap and no distributor, not that I can see.

He yanked off the distributor cap and tugged at the rubber lid until it sprang loose from the wires.

A moment later, remembering, she pitched the distributor cap out the window.

Zimmerman went to the Jeep, put his Thompson on the seat, raised the hood, and then reached into one of the cavernous pockets of his utilities and took out a distributor cap, a distributor rotor, and the ignition wires.

When I had begun to despair of ever keeping her running, or ever getting her out of the back yard on her own power, I found that the firing order was wired up wrong, and after fixing that, I found that a lubricant with graphite in it had hardened on the bakelite outside of the distributor cap and some of the impulses were shorting down the outside of the cap.

Then I let the air out of two of the tires, removed one of the blankets from the truck bed, hid the keys under the remaining two, stashed the distributor cap in the bottom compartment of his tool box.