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Old 10-08-2021, 05:45 PM   #21
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Daves55 wrote:
"However, I am a small and wirey fellow. I just take the oil bath air cleaner off, crawl up over the engine with my right foot resting on the driver side exhaust manifold and my left foot resting on the top of the water pump. It is fairly comfortable. Just looks awkward, but who cares."


I'm 6' and there is no way I could manage that...only if the hood was removed!
If I was working on an early t-bird then accessing the dissy would present a clear shot.
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Old 10-08-2021, 05:54 PM   #22
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Shaft oil fitting, so the bushing doesn't wear as quickly by dmsfrr
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Also oil the felt piece in the top of the shaft
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I should mention that my '54 shop manual suggests that technicians pull the distributor even for things like replacing points, rotor and or condenser. (I'm speaking of the Y block, I don't know what they suggest for the six.) I don't know if that is the same on '55 and later.

For a person of my age (early/mid sixties) it isn't easy to replace those things with the dist in the engine. I've done it, though. The last time I did it was when I had the heater fan housing/plenum removed, which helped create some much needed clearance in the engine bay.
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... my '54 shop manual suggests that technicians pull the distributor even for things like replacing points, rotor and or condenser.
This is how the LOM DIST was to be setup. It was placed in a DIST MACHINE and all adjustment(s) (including vacuum advance) were done to the calibration of the DIST.

I doubt few were actually done in this fashion as if the car ran OK, points and condenser and slam the hood.
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Interesting! yeah I messed around with junkbox & defective distributors for too long before I wizened up some and started to figure out what's what. A serviceable distributor with the correct advance curve makes all the difference.

If it's a triangular base housing it might well be one of the "fake" Y-Block distributors. I think maybe the Motorcraft "Service Replacement" units offered up in the 1970s might have used those later distributor bodies, but guess which one is more likely to be found.
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Don't forget the 1963-64 292 truck DIST had the triangular shaft body. This is the one that is easiest modified, especially if going to DS-II. And it also used an O-RING as the SBF.
!!! EDIT - CORRECTION !!!

I stated the 63/64 TRUCK DIST had a triangular body ...

!!! WRONG !!!

Below is an attachment showing the later DIST HSG -

The 3rd photo compares the FYB to the CARDONE FRANKENDIZZY (I like that term).

I don't like to post inaccurate info. If you guys see something that I post that doesn't smell right, interject. I have been married for fifty years so I am far from sensitive.

EDIT -

And why I am in the confessional ...

Any reference I have made to the late hsngs using a DIST O-RING (B9TF 12143-A), forget that one too for now. It seems some didn't and a few did. I need to verify before I open my pie-hole.
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File Type: jpg DIST - C3TF-12127 -K .- 3FB _1.jpg (192.8 KB, 15 views)
File Type: jpg DIST - FYB vs CARDONE SBF Rebuild.jpg (64.8 KB, 15 views)
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