Great suggestion. I could do that without too much trouble at all. I did have my fuel take done over about 10 years ago with the plastic coating insid...
I just started looking in on this thread and boy am I glad i did. I was going to rebuild my distributor IAT-4009A over the winter and just didn't get ...
Hi all - OK so now that Winter is over and i had a chance to work on my car, here's the outcome. I took out my distributor and removed the vacuum adva...
Works for me...thanks.
Thanks for the confirmation of this question. So, that leaves only my last question regarding the pin in the distributor shaft. Once I knock that out ...
Hi Walt. Thanks for the reply. According to the shop manual, I should get a maximum vacuum advance of 3.75 deg, so this sounds like the right unit for...
Hi Alex - thanks for the heads up. I checked the 48 - 52 shop manual and found the reference to the IAT-4009B distributor. It seems identical to the I...
Hi Lee, Thanks for the suggestion. I have a long line of White-out on the 0 deg TDC line of the flywheel, but I like the chalk idea, maybe differen...
Hi all, First, I want to thank all the contributors to this story. It is really comforting to know that there are so many subject matter experts ou...
Hi Park - great question. I haven't tried adjusting the points to obtain 36 degrees lately. I just set the points to 0.020 with a feeler gauge and obs...
Hi all - as for the operation of the dwell meter, the instructions are very clear on how to hook it up for either positive or negative ground cars; as...
Funny you should mention that because i have a Heathkit Dwell Tachometer that has instructions for both 6 and 12 volt, positive or negative ground, bu...
Yes, I'll definitely check that out. Of course, all that has to wait until I find a replacement muffler for the one I blew up yesterday. I think the l...