The photo in post #1 almost looks like the distributor has been painted that light purple color like the Road Runner horns, but I guess it's just the light.
It's Rustoleum hammered grey.
The photo in post #1 almost looks like the distributor has been painted that light purple color like the Road Runner horns, but I guess it's just the light.
Man, that's killer!Yup I did it. I got to lookin at a distributor core today and said to myself, "hell, why not?" So I tore it down, chunked the guts in purple stuff to clean um all up and blasted the housing. Got everything cleaned up good and inspected what I had. Bushings like new. The "smallest" degree governor I had was a cussfired 15L. Dang. 30* advance at the crank. Bummer. Ok, so I welded the governor slots up and filed um back out to .340 which will give 6* mechanical at the distributor and 12* mechanical at the crank. Perfect. Yeah. You ain't seeing things. That's an electronic slant 6 distributor. Hell's freezin over yall. Now all I need is a new vacuum can for it and blue streak cap and rotor and we're done. I'd love to find a Mopar Chrome Box, but they're hard to come by and everybody wants a pile for um, so I'll come up with somethin. I might put it in Vixen's current engine. It'll go in the unicorn head motor for sure. Whoda thunk it?
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Science Professor? Nah, rocket surgeon !Here you go. There's how much it has....."however" much that is. It ain't much. I caint find my damned protractor, of course. I'll go out in a bit and grab my degree wheel. That'll tell me. It looks pretty dang close , though.
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Science Professor? Nah, rocket surgeon !
What is this Rob, one you found in the "junk box" er what?
I was "into" the Scamp the other day, I'd forgotten just how far down in the dark and difficult to get to those damn things are with that engine lyin' there
What is this Rob, one you found in the "junk box" er what?
I was "into" the Scamp the other day, I'd forgotten just how far down in the dark and difficult to get to those damn things are with that engine lyin' there
So, throw a piece of tape to mark #1 , and just rerun the firing order real fast?...and I've had my distributor outta Vixen so many times now, I can poke my good eye out with a dull stick and still mess with it in the car. It's not bad. The trick is not bein stubborn and leavin the cap attached to the wires Just get it the hell outta the way and it's a breeze.
So, throw a piece of tape to mark #1 , and just rerun the firing order real fast?
That's whip ***! Then again I guess you could just look at the wire coming off number one and trace it down, and if you got them separated with them things, it'd be quick to do it from there. Lol I an Definitely going to follow your advice and grab that Fabo advance limiter plate soon. I traded a pulan chainsaw for a Matco dial back light...I don't even mark it. I never do. lol
That's whip ***! Then again I guess you could just look at the wire coming off number one and trace it down, and if you got them separated with them things, it'd be quick to do it from there. Lol I an Definitely going to follow your advice and grab that Fabo advance limiter plate soon. I traded a pulan chainsaw for a Matco dial back light...
I did work the body shop for a little while when I was younger also I had a mapp gas kit form Sears ( remember them, when Craftsman was USA!) back in 91. I was looking at that plate last night, looks like they're about 45 bucks with shipping. The only thing I do have is a little torch for sweating copper... I'm thinking by the time I acquired the stuff to do it the old school way, I may be Miles Ahead just to go ahead and grab that plate. And of Course, be annoying enough to ask for some help, setting up a timing curve, that is different from the existing one. I recall you said 20° advance, not 12...Cool. If you can mig weld.....or even braze, you can do like I did and save the money for the limiter plate.
The length of the slots. I found a chart over on the slant6 forum. The stock 15L had .475 length slots and gives 30* at the crank. I welded them up and filed them back out to .340 which gives 12* at the crank.
I still don't ''Bleeb'' it...........
Yup dats the one I found!
its been poster here many many times too over the years..
i've posted the two articles on timing many times..
lol.. i've posted the two articles on timing many times.. the search isn't all that good here for some reason..
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Very hard. Eye strainAre these articles something you could send me direct by chance? I'd like to read them but the photos are way to small.
I remember going to see Jerry back in the early 90s!Wow, there are some old ads in those pages!!!