New distributor pickup bad?

[RJ Squirrel]

So I dismantled the distributor, cleaned up and oiled the mechanical advance, shaft etc, cussed at that little retainer clip inside the shaft for a proper length of time, and put it together with this new pickup coil. It does not line up parallel with the reluctor wheel at all. Did I get a bad one or they all bent a little bit like this? It is a Standard LX102

 

[RemCharger]

Tweak it with some pliers and install/ check

 

[RJ Squirrel]

In this new age of shitty parts somehow I am still surprised when I get bad new parts. This is the picture of it before I put it in my vice and straightened it

 

[Geoff 2]

Yup,
It needs a tweak.....

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Normal now especially any standard "T" parts which are their lower end of jobber!

 

[Don Frelier]

Apparently the new "standard" is a low one.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Run from the ones that end with "T"

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

And these but better than new stuff