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Originally Posted by benji
This is what I have and the top looks like nothing I have found pictures of. Can anyone help identify this set up. The engine is a 59ab in a 1936 Ford. It appears the distributor bottom from the old 1936 engine was used and the dome top was replaced with this flat plate that the coil wire goes into. Can you help identify what configuration I have so I can order parts and tune if I need to in the future?
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What you have IS a conversion plate mounted to the top of the distributor for use with a more modern coil as you have mounted on the top of the head. The process for removing your distributor, having it rebuilt and set up on a distributor machine (if that is what you choose to do) is still the same, AS well as checking your distributor and coil as Drolston (post #4) has suggested in an earlier post....the only difference being the coil is NOW on the top of your left head!!!! Everything else is the same as stock it appears!!!
Where it me, I'd find a stock coil an send it down here to Skip Haney in Florida and have him bullet proof it for you (about $120) and ditch that conversion plate and go back original, mounted on top of the distributor again!!!
In the mean time you can still chase your issue and decide which manner is best to proceed.
Let us know how you are making out!!1