Jeep prestolite distributor problems

The old style 225's use to rattle apart dist. advance mechanisms and tear up cam drives. This was back in the day many engines had the much hated nylon top sprocket---they are not gears. They were a great Jeeper engine, tho, lots and LOTS of bottom end

"Back in the day" when we had "real" parts guys working in real parts houses.......we had REAL paper catalogs, one was a "numerical interchange." You could take the tag on one of these dist's and look up all the internal parts right out of the interchange--and KNOW that you had the correct cap

We once had a customer come in with one of these, had the cap on there with rubber bands. I said "why?" "Can't find the right cap" says he. I told him next time he was doing something in there, get the tag no. and come back in. He thought I was a hero. I was just doing my job. I AMAZED ME THAT WITH COMPUTERS that parts stores of today can not do this. Oh'really's has no clue.