arse_sidewards
Contrary to everything
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While all this was happening I pulled the distributor to "rebuild" and by "rebuild" I mean clean a half century of varnish/sludge off it and not clean anything. The distributor was almost seized from the varnish and the housing with the gears that turn the distributor was bone dry and absolutely full of rust so it's good that I took it all apart. Sorry I didn't take many pics but it was one of those things that clearly was gonna take way more time than planned so I just worked on it.
Someone at some point lost one of the distributor hold downs and their solution was to lose the O-ring so that it would sit flat with one tie down.
I just cleaned the distributor gears with a wire brush. Finish isn't great but for something that's gonna run in oil I think it will be fine. The roll pin looked like it was replaced with a scrap of something at some point so I drilled it out for a 3/16 roll pin.
Someone at some point lost one of the distributor hold downs and their solution was to lose the O-ring so that it would sit flat with one tie down.
I just cleaned the distributor gears with a wire brush. Finish isn't great but for something that's gonna run in oil I think it will be fine. The roll pin looked like it was replaced with a scrap of something at some point so I drilled it out for a 3/16 roll pin.