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The photos show a Load-O-Matic with vacuum advance only. Requires a carb that can supply VENTURI vacuum. Aside from exact restorations, few owners or tuners like them. The dual vacuum pot version that was on my '56 'bird resides in the attic of my garage in an unlabeled box.
I can think of about three versions of the '57+ distributors - the 1957 had a ball bearing point plate to facilitate the vacuum advance (ported vacuum was the OEM source).  The next version was an Autolite with the "kidney" shaped flyweights and a simple slip pivot for the point plate to provide the vacuum advance movement.----- There is also I believe, a Motorcraft version used circa 1962/63/64. it would have the later (up into the 70's) flyweights and springs.

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

the 1 i thought was early 57 is different than the picture #  12127   on mine, oae  and ohd stamped on body  i think you are corrects the 1 i have is cent advance and a deeper body. the advance has a straight rode like the loadematic. i was incorrect,picture is a loadamativ as vacume unit not adjustable.
mine is adjustable

Visible advance springs = load-o-matic.  Were the very first mechanical ones the same?


Lawrenceville, GA

that is a 57 list,early cent advance,the later ones are easy to convert to ford durraspark. have converted several. the one shown can be converted but more work.  the one shown would work fine as long as the later  petrol is used, certainly better than vacuum only,and a must for latter carb conversion on 55/56 aplication

Post it in the classifieds for much better visibility.


Lawrenceville, GA

54-56 Distributor





54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

thank you to all . very helpful cheers

thanks so much for your info

They work until they don't.  The one I bought worked for six months of light driving.  I was in the process of rebuilding my engine when it came up on this forum. With the engine apart, it was easy to see that the drive gear was not resting on the block. It was hovering about 1/4" above the block pad.  This means the distributor case is holding the gear in place instead of the block surface.  How long would it be before it started to wear down the distributor case itself? Probably quite some time.  A friend has one of the distributors with the gear repinned.  This fixes the gear issue, but the distributor shaft is still too short which does not allow the oil pump drive shaft to seat all the way.  Under load this is sure to fail.  The best thing to do is hunt down a genuine Y-Block distributor.