He give you the advance curve? Weights are under the plate I assume. Sure looks nice.
Thanks

miker
55 bird, 32 cabrio F code
Kent, WA
Tucson, AZ

Yes, he included a spec sheet.

Don't count us out. I've had a setback with prostate surgery and nasty weather. We will "endeavor to persevere".

So, correct me if I am wrong. If I understand correctly, this is a 55-56 distributor LoadOMatic converted to Pertronics style? If so this will be a real boon to 55 and 56 tbird tach drive distributors. A lot of those are sitting on a shelf at a reduced price.

       A  L  A  N   F  R  A  K  E  S   ~  Tulsa, OK    

Just get yourself well - a speedy recovery....................

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The distributor I had modified was a load-matic for a 56-57 368 Lincoln/Mercury, not a T bird. Different animals. Different block family. This was a 1956 distributor with vacuum advance that has been converted to mechanical with Pertronix. BTW, it's been 3+ weeks since my surgery and I'm healing up well, thanks.

Major Set-back!!  We go to install our newly modified distributor to find out it doesn't fit. The company used the base for a Ford Y block and it doesn't fit the Mercury 368.  Either his base was not machined correctly or the diameter on the Ford and Mercury Y blocks are different sizes. Anyone have any first hand knowledge?  He has the only Load-matic distributor I had so I can't measure apples to apples when he keeps the base.

Which part of it doesn't fit?


Lawrenceville, GA

Not sure of what you have?  I thought the loadomatic went out at the end of 56 production except for 6 cylinder engines.  I am presently running a 57 368 tach drive from a 57 Mercury Turn Pike Cruiser in my Ford Y-block. Same casting and internals as the Ford/T-birc 57 tach drive and in that case, the shaft is the same also.  The difference was the gear. I replaced the gear with a Ford 14 tooth Y-block gear and have been running this distributor for a number of years now. I have also done the same to a cast iron dual advance strib removed from a big Ford truck equipped with a 302 or 332 Lincoln Y-block.  That strib had a governor which  I removed.  Maybe the gear is not in the proper location?  To my knowledge and experience, the Lincoln Y-block and Ford Y-block distributors are interchangeable at least from 57 on except for the drive gear.       Just to mention:  There were 2 different drive gears used in the big Ford trucks with Lincoln Y-blocks. One was right hand teeth and the other was left hand teeth. Some of the Lincoln truck Y's were built with a gear driven camshaft which required a strib drive gear with teeth of an opposite angle so the strib would still rotate CCW. 

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Edit     I only mentioned the 2 different gears because I know how easy it is to grab the wrong part from a bench covered with parts when assembling something.  If you don't mind, post a pic of the modified distributor you are installing.............

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