Really sorry to hear that guys.. And you were so close.. Building a Lincoln is not for the faint of heart..I have done them for many years.. They are supper rugged and reliable and make good power but you have to be imaginative to create parts to make them work.. For years you could put the Lincoln Y enthusiasts in a phone booth but in the last couple years i have advised several guys doing builds.. One in the UK with a replica Mexican road race car....  Be patient  someone will be happy to get your engine.

So far I have had inquiries from local to Norway, including France. The shipping and duties to France are astronomical. I was quoted $7K+ air and a whopping $13K+ for sea. There's no doubt, with all the oddball contacts that came pouring in, that DHL has many outlets for their services and "subcontractors" have infiltrated their ranks with inflated prices. I could have offered him a much better deal thru Wallenius Wilhelmsen Shipping which calls in to the Port of Tacoma and Belgium. He could have made the trek to Belgium himself and saved big.

Motor sold locally, no shipping.

Just reading thru old threads ...

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I agree in that is is a SBF distributor which has the same lower end machined as our Y-block distributors. What they did is cut the shaft, used a properly (hopefully) machined sleeve to position the lower shaft section with hex drive to the PROPER length. Then it's just a matter of installing the gear in the proper place per the Y-block shop manual. In this case, the gear should be the larger 15 tooth  Lincoln gear.  I have done somewhat similar Lincoln to Ford Y-block swaps. 

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"I agree in that is is a SBF distributor which has the same lower end machined as our Y-block distributors. What they did is cut the shaft, used a properly (hopefully) machined sleeve to position the lower shaft section with hex drive to the PROPER length. Then it's just a matter of installing the gear in the proper place per the Y-block shop manual. In this case, the gear should be the larger 15 tooth  Lincoln gear.  I have done somewhat similar Lincoln to Ford Y-block swaps."   

I hope you can allow for my ignorance. I have read and re-read this thread a dozen times.

The OP posted that FBO stated they would take his take-out LYB LOM DIST and convert it internally to a DUAL ADVANCE DIST (and if using FORD DUAL ADVANCE internals, how could one make the internals fit within the smaller LOM DIST bowl?).

The returned DIST PHOTO the OP posted was a SBF DIST, and it gave the same problem(s) as the CARDONE REMANS of a few years ago.

And if FBO did substitute a SBF DUAL ADVANCE DIST what happened to the LYB LOM sent in for modification?


BTW - For future reference(s) -

A DIST HSG will have a raised CASTING ID usually on the bottom of the bowl. The ENGINEERING (CASTING) PN will include the BASIC PN XXX-12133-X to help interchange when necessary.

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Ha! KT you are very observant, correct and are not having dementia attacks.  FBO did not install dual advance distributor guts in a LOM distributor. That would be  a next to if not impossible task due  to bowl size/depth etc. etc..  What happened to the original LOM distributor? They must have kept it. FBO obviously was not on top of their game, in this instance. They had the original LOM distributor to use as a pattern to build the new modified distributor.   It appears the distributor you captured from this thread and recently posted is an aftermarket copy of/for the SBF adapted to fit Y-blocks. It's unfortunate this seems to cause so much confusion. 

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I seem to remember some time back reading where they (FBO) could re-do a LOM to DUAL ADVANCE. Possibly they designed their own internals to fit within the LOM bowl? But is was a switcher-roo.

Nothing was mentioned about needing a fully ported vacuum source. 

And it was on the innerscreen so naturally I thought it had to be true.

I wonder how it all turned out. I was never able to afford to go that far (brine, women and song you know).

Saturday afternoons in the junkyards and woods.

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That would make sense to me anyways, because the collar, lower shaft with gear from the original distributor would be coupled to the shortened/shorter SBF shaft. Hopefully after all the issues with Martyk98 they got the dimensions right. 

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