| juergen | -- 01-03-2012 @ 7:22 AM |
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Can someone identify this distributor? It looks like the usual early Ford V-8 distributor but it has two holes directly in line with the point adjustments at the bottom of the distributor. I got it from a rebuilt engine which had a lot of early and late components on it.
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| drkbp | -- 01-03-2012 @ 9:51 AM |
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juergen, It is the distributor used on '33 - '36 V8's. The two holes have rubber plugs in them after you set the points. You are looking at the bottom. The top is the other side and probably has three holes. There are numbers on the drive side where it engages the cam shaft. 68's will have two hole flat top coil and were for late '36. 48's were three hole coils and fit '33 - '36. I don't know if it fits '32. Ken in Texas This message was edited by drkbp on 1-3-12 @ 9:53 AM
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| juergen | -- 01-04-2012 @ 8:36 AM |
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Thanks for the reply.
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| supereal | -- 01-04-2012 @ 9:45 AM |
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A number of early distributors featured openings to allow point adjustment without taking it off the car, Chevy and GM cars among them. However, the Ford position behind the fan, and the vertical placement of the points, made adjustment unlikely unless the points were specially made to be set independently of the body of the point set. Even then, the engine had to be off. This "convenience" quickly disappeared due to the lack of portable dwell meters.
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| TomO | -- 01-04-2012 @ 12:11 PM |
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You cannot adjust the points with the distributor on the car on the 33-36 distributor. The reason for the holes is t allow access to the adjustable point on these distributors. The later distributors used a movable plate to adjust the gap, these distributors have an adjustable point with a screwdriver slot and the only access is through the opening in the bottom of the housing. Tom
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