John,

Counted the teeth on the tach drive dist and it is 15.  The 312 S/C count is 14.

Were any of the 368's dual point, or do you think was this converted?

MARVH, thank you for ID'ing the dist and John for the tooth count info.

As I have a 292 converted to Duraspark on the engine, these will go back into hibernation.

Regards,

Dennis

  

   

I dug out my distributors. My passenger car supercharger dist is FEH-12127-E, date code is 743. It has straight and curved points and a vacuum advance diaphragm assy, but the port is plugged.

I noticed in your earlier post shown above that the vaccum advance was plugged on the FEH 12127 E distributor.  When I bought my 1957 312 it was complete except for the carburetor and the vacuum advace on my COAF 12127-A distributor was also plugged.  I found that baffling and was curious as to what application you would ever plug the vaccum advance?   

buddy

The FE  and 289 Ford factory dual point distributors were centrifical advance only  with no vaccum advance. When converting the Y block distributors to dual points using the FE parts you plug the vaccum advance and re curve the distributor accordingly. Been running mine that way since the late '60's.

Thanks for all the advice and information.  I probably need to check the advance curve for sure on my distributor.

buddy

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In the S/C Dist the straight points have part number FR-151 S and the curved points have FR 152 S stamped on it.

Both have a mfg logo on them "CP", more of a "C sub P", like in a math equation.  

Can anyone ID or cross those numbers over to another manufacturer or source?  Trying to help Randy H  out.

Regards,

Dennis

Hi guys. I had to throw in my two cents on this. I just finished tearing down a 292 Yblock that has set in the timber for the past 40 years. It had been put in a 51 Ford convert, and was a half completed custom project that was abandoned by the owner. Anyway, the motor is trash from being full of water, but I was able to get the tach drive distributor out in one piece. It has the FEK-12127-C2 number on it, and is single point. Date code is 6O3, and it's a 14 tooth gear. The fact that it has the dipstick in the side of the block (not the front cover), and casting numbers B9AE, I believe this is a 59 truck motor. So, maybe there is something to the truck tach drive guess? I'm assuming that physically this is the same as the tbird tach drives, just the specs are probably a little different? There was no cable on this, a small cover had been made for the hole.

Your likely right about it being a 59 (or 60) truck engine,with tack drive. It may also have a rear sump pan. Was is a 4 bbl unit by chance? To bad you can't salvage any of it?

Paul

Yep, it had the rear sump pan, even at that, it was 'modified' (ball peen) for tie rod clearance in the '51. It had the wide-base 2v carb and manifold,the carb is garbage. I was able to salvage the cam (looks stock) and crankshaft (R .020, M .010). The crank is borderline useable as is, or easily ground to the next .010. Motor was so stuck that I had to torch the rods to get the crank out.