Electronic distributors and tuning them.

[Jonas Nordstrom]

Great info in this thread.
I just got this one that I am going to restore, taken off an old running 440.

I also run a limiter plate in my car now, 16 initial, adding 18. Great little metal plate.

 

[kiwigtx]

Where did you stack them all!!?

He'll need a separate moving truck to haul them to Tennessee when he eventually moves house....lol

 

[Kern Dog]

I've been to Greg's place, he keeps it very clean... Even a Karen would have to look for more than a brief glance to find something to bitch about.... But we all know she'd still bitch...

Thank you! I do try to keep stuff reasonably sorted. I have to sometimes take a break from projects to collect all outlying tools and parts and put them away. It is easy to have stuff scattered around and forget where that one crucial part is.
You know how we sometimes take after our parents with some habits?
Dad hated clutter. He often threw stuff out that was broken or incomplete.
I inherited his intolerance for clutter but I love to fix broken stuff or finish incomplete things. We differed immensely on those points.

 

[Kern Dog]

Now you got me curious, Russ....

I don't recall seeing a notch in the Big Block distributors.

None of the LA series ones had it either but I've been looking on the notch side, not 180 degrees from it. I'll take a closer look.
It sure would help, sort of like a Woodruff key on a crankshaft dampener.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

All the Mopar Electronics have them in cam plates for electronic ignition. I have a really hard to find Mopar clear cap prob from the 60's that some one made I use for phasing, 99.9% of the time they are right on if the pick up is right for the 8 cyl and not a 6 cyl one which gets installed alot. Thats a whole thread right there in ID ing them..

 

[R/T Boy 67]

The notch is there in post number7, third picture from the bottom.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

The FSM has the factory specs in chapter 8 I believe.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

ay.

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I did mark it and pressed it back into the same position but it has 8 points that are evenly spaced to match the distributor cap terminals. I don’t understand how these can be in the right place for each one. The rotor is indexed.
Can someone explain that for me?

LA and RB positions.
You can kind of see it here Hope it helps.

 

[Kern Dog]

Thanks, but....not really. I can't tell the difference between those two.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Thanks, but....not really. I can't tell the difference between those two.

No where the roll pin goes. Fixed the double pic. The la is almost straight to a tooth, B/RB is off.

 

[Cranky]

I've been to Greg's place, he keeps it very clean... Even a Karen would have to look for more than a brief glance to find something to bitch about.... But we all know she'd still bitch...

Sounds like someone I used to be married to lol.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

I have never seen the single "hole" Reluctors except on aftermarket and some early lean burns. But with Mopar I would not doubt it!

 

[Kern Dog]

Sounds like someone I used to be married to lol.

I'm not fanatical about it. I've had a few FBBO members over, they know.

 

[Kern Dog]

The notch is there in post number7, third picture from the bottom.

Son of a gun, you are right!

 

[Cranky]

All the Mopar Electronics have them in cam plates for electronic ignition. I have a really hard to find Mopar clear cap prob from the 60's that some one made I use for phasing, 99.9% of the time they are right on if the pick up is right for the 8 cyl and not a 6 cyl one which gets installed alot. Thats a whole thread right there in ID ing them..

Never did use a 6 pickup but never thought it would be different.....just thought the reluctor would be the determining factor.

I'm not fanatical about it. I've had a few FBBO members over, they know.

I'm not fanatical either but tried to keep things in some kind of order just to make things easier to find plus I don't like clutter all that much even though there was always some. My dad was a minimalist which is different from most from his generation. Anyways, the property was mostly always well kept but the wife would usually make the comment 'are you going to do yard work today' and that usually meant she wanted it done now. It didn't matter if I had planned on it or not, I'd always say 'no baby, tomorrow' lol I'm one that hates to be micro managed and she was a micro manager to the max.

 

[Kern Dog]

I'm fortunate to have a wife that is so easygoing about my interests, it would piss off the other wives.
She never hassles me about the money I spend, the shows I attend or the way I sometimes look. I try to balance out my hobbies with giving her full attention when she needs it. I am blessed.

 

[kiwigtx]

Son of a gun, you are right!

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Someone has been using steel feeler gauges.....

 

[Kern Dog]

The ones I used are brass. What makes you think that steel were used?

 

[kiwigtx]

The ones I used are brass. What makes you think that steel were used?

The shard of steel on the magnetic pickup.

 

[Kern Dog]

Your eyes are better than mine. I had to get the reading glasses to see that.
It is probably a strand from the rivet I filed down. Maybe I'll give this a quickie blast of compressed air before using it.
Thank you.