Bushing dropped out of crab distributor?

[51504bat]

Originally Posted by swedishsteel

Cousin was running the grader/snowplow and swung down out of the cab and his ring hooked on something and stripped the meat off his finger. That's when I quit wearing mine and it sits in the jewelry box on the dresser.

A group of us was vacationing at Lake Havasu on the Colorado River probably 25 years ago. One of the women jumped off a boat that was moored just off shore. She caught her wedding ring on one of the snaps for the boat cover. Ripped he ring finger off at the joint. We recovered the finger but the ring slipped off on the way to the surface never to be found. Unfortunately the finger couldn't be reattached due to the jagged nature of the tear. Kinda of put a damper on the vacation.

[GB SISSON]

Originally Posted by tubman

Wow! That looks cool! Almost like a pirate's treasure map.

As far as the 'Treasure Map' .....About 20 years ago I was set up at the antique tractor/gas engine/steam threshing show at Lynden on the mainland. I was introduced to a guy in his late 80s that grew up in Doe Bay, which is where my place is. He asked me 'where abouts?'. I told him I was in the draw (the holler) above Doe Bay just a few yards above the old concrete water tank. He knew just where that was and commenced to tell me a story about 2 bachelor brothers who staked a claim and started digging a gold mine in that draw as it was an old stream bed. One of the brothers got appendecidis and was laid across their mule and then off to Eastsound, but he died in the way. He also told me that when they were logging up there in the forties, the property owner had it filled in as it was a safety hazzard. We have looked and definately found piled rock but nothing else. Our property is right below the SE corner of Moran State Park. The barn in my story is out past Deer Harbor.

[GB SISSON]

Originally Posted by 51504bat

A group of us was vacationing at Lake Havasu on the Colorado River probably 25 years ago. One of the women jumped off a boat that was moored just off shore. She caught her wedding ring on one of the snaps for the boat cover. Ripped he ring finger off at the joint. We recovered the finger but the ring slipped off on the way to the surface never to be found. Unfortunately the finger couldn't be reattached due to the jagged nature of the tear. Kinda of put a damper on the vacation.

Ok, Ok stop! My ring is now in a desk drawer for safe keeping, or when I gain the 20 back....

[bigd1101]

OK......I'll bite....wth is a "crab distributor" ? Or am I just a dumb bunny?

[GB SISSON]

Originally Posted by cas3

How come GB's home is not marked as a "tourist attraction " ?

Because somebody would get crushed under a pile of reclaimed beams, flathead blocks or rusty split rims. Or worse yet, get a big old glob of grease on their designer mountain climbing jacket........

[petehoovie]

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Originally Posted by bigd1101

OK......I'll bite....wth is a "crab distributor" ? Or am I just a dumb bunny?

1942-46 FORD FLATHEAD rebuilt "crab" distributor

[corvette8n]

I met a truck driver with a missing finger, he told me he jumped off the front bumper, after cleaning the windshield on his big rig, his wedding band caught on the wiper arm and chopped off his finger. He said he didn’t even realize it happened until he saw the blood dripping.

[bigd1101]

Originally Posted by petehoovie

1942-46 FORD FLATHEAD rebuilt "crab" distributor

Now that's interesting......never seen one.

[richard crow]

when will you guys learn to remove your rings & watches when working on cars. i have seen guys loose fingers & some nasty wrist burns.

[PeteVS]

I haven't had my ring off in ages. Lately, I've played with it and it felt as if I'd never get it off. Anyway, after reading the horror stories above, I used some liquid soap and water and worked on it until it finally got over my fat knuckle. It's now safe in my jewelry box on the dresser. I guess I'm going to have to start taking off my watch too!

[PeteVS]

Originally Posted by bigd1101

Now that's interesting......never seen one.

The crab distributors appeared after WW2 and were used through '48.

[GB SISSON]

Do any of you run the factory 59ab steel conduits from rabbit ear distributors when you switch to the crab cap? I haven't tried it but I can attest to the fact that it takes a bunch of ugly zip ties to just go commando from the crab cap to the spark plugs.

[cas3]

I use the factory tubes, helps keep it all neat and tidy !

[Tim Ayers]

Originally Posted by cas3

I use the factory tubes, helps keep it all neat and tidy !

Same. Really cleans things up

[Mart]

Ugly zip ties and commando for me I'm afraid.

[GB SISSON]

Still one day of the weekend left. Maybe I'll bust out a set of those conduits for the woodie. Been meaning to clean up the engine compartment of loose ends. Do I incorporate the rubber sleve that went to the rabbit ear cap?

AND, drumroll please , the Jailbar flatbed roared to life and required no adjustments whatsoever to idle smooth as silk. Clutch was stuck pretty bad, but some agressive shifting and hand braking broke it free once I hit the dirt road. The new owner (grandson) rode shotgun at first and was the hand-brake man. After one lap he took over with his two boys alongside him. After dinner tonight I got a text from him...."I can't stop joyriding back and forth." The old farm has at least ten acres with some dirt roads in a loop. Looks like the brakes will be next. The master was bone dry and the pedal is frozen. Nothing I haven't seen before in this damp climate and with 1974 tabs, it's a no brainer that I'll just order new everything. The agreement is HE does the work and I guide him. I don't do other folk's brakes.....

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by GB SISSON

AND, drumroll please , the Jailbar flatbed roared to life and required no adjustments whatsoever to idle smooth as silk.

[rotorwrench]

The crab cap was a short lived item due to the start of WWII. I always referred to the post war distributor as the rabbit ear design due to the cap shape with the bail. It can be converted for the crab cap pretty easily though. For a number of years the rabbit ear cap was not available in parts stores so a lot of folks converted them to the crab.

The conduits look nice but they can promote cross firing after the high tension leads deteriorate to some extent. I've seen some inventive ways of attaching the crab cap high tension leads. Some folks use the separated individual tube designs to direct the leads and others used clip type stand offs on the manifold to keep the wires separated. Most of these set ups require custom fabricated leads.

[cas3]

Nice lookin truck GB !

[Kube]

Originally Posted by PeteVS

The crab distributors appeared after WW2 and were used through '48.

They appeared first in 1942.