Today I by chance glanced at the dist. with late model housing, and realized it was shorter than usual between contact point on block and cap mount rim!  Measured it and yep, 1/4 in. less height.  Not important except to me.  You wouldnt believe how little room there is betwen the cap of a standard type dist. and the firewall.  Cramming in a wire and boot at the closest point requires technique!  Looking forward to making the change. 

Picked up a new vacuum advance at Carquest for 28.00.  Seemed like a lot but was the best deal between them, NAPA and AZ.

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

Napa, O’Reilly’s or Autozone in my neck of the woods for vacuum advance chambers.  Just be sure to have your old one in hand to insure that it matches up to the new one.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Want to see a distributor really odd?

What about a Wapsa?













Túlio Lazzaroni "FORD", Florianópolis SC Brasil.

'74 Ford Galaxie 500 292 V8

'82 Ford Galaxie Landau 302 V8

'98 Chevrolet S10 4.3 V6

'01 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec

Where is the least expensive place to buy a vacuum advance?

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

I read somewhere that the rebuilders have ran out of the older housings are using a mustang housings with Y-block specs, hence the C5, C9 number.  My rebuilt distributor has the same triangular base. 

This link is to the last discussion we had about the two systems of mechanical advance......

http://www.y-blocksforever.com/forums/Topic34115-3-1.aspx?Highlight=advance

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

Charlie that is my question also.  Different centrifugal weights perhaps?  Havent taken it apart to see.

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

So are the internal parts, advance mechanisms, and such, of the service replacement interchangeable with the later, say '59 to '64, Y-block distributors?


Lawrenceville, GA

The picture is the one.  There is always something new or unknown popping up .

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

yep - looks like this one?  Service part I think - built with later housing and advance mechanism.

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona