My distributor rebuild
 

Ok I have been thinking about doing this for a while as my car had advance issues and it missed so this is what it looked like after I completed a good dissasembly and cleaning and replacement of shims, advance retard module,rotor,cap, green signal wire, msd igniton wire lead ( I made), And bead blasting and clear coating the housing. Took about 1 hour start to finish and I must say it was very junked up before now it runs much smootherhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1118594271.jpg

Sure looks nice! Looks like it just came out of the factory..or is that a new on in the pic?

Thats the rebuilt one just installed this morning and timed etc. I wish the whol;e engine looked like thathttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1118595228.jpg

bump for monday so all can see that it can be done

Nice work Ben, that looks very blingy! :cool:

Ben,

Very nice! Where did you get the new advance/retard module and how much did it cost?

Jim

40 bucks world pac

that's nice Ben.

Any more pics of the "during" stage? What's the adv/retard module look like?

Did you have to recurve it?

My car misses and it's getting worse and worse and I think I should jump on that job pretty soon too.

Dave I left everything alone inside except for cleaning and reshimming. The springs were in tact and the bushings seemed ok. However I still have a miss that now Seams as though I have eliminated all ignition and I am going after fuel distributor. Tim handcock had a pic of them complety disassembled in his thread if you want to look at his search distributor rebuild.. As far as curving once I put it back together I check timing With and without advace and retard hooked up and followed the hayne manual specs and it fell right in there so It was fine. I would think however if you took it to a shop they could test it for you. The toughest thing about the project is to find a pin for the gear. I called pelican but it was back ordered so I went with the roll pin as most domestic cars are this way. I do however have the pin back ordered I think(paperwork did not show this from pelican) So when it comes in I will put that in..

Hi Ben, there is no "D" in Hancock ha ha!

Hi Ben, there is no "D" in Hancock ha ha! Your distributor looks brand new! Very nice!

Tim, can't seem to find your thread on this. Any leads?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=181925&highlight=DIY+di stributor

This was my distributor repair Harlequin.

I try to put DIY on every thread that I post about something I think others may want to try so it is easier to search for again.

that's a good idea Tim. My search terms were your name and distributor, but that came up w/ nothing other than this thread LOL

Great write up, thanks.

This bad boy is coming back apart to fit the springs better this weekend. I hope I can make this thing work properly