fix your distributor
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Fix your Ford Distributor Position
Episode 516 Autorestomod
This week we show you how to put the Ford Small Block 302 distributor in the correct “forward” position. We do this the easy way: we simply clock the spark plug wires one position back from the current one and then move the distributor accordingly.
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Top video again guys, but you are more forgiving than I am. I'd rub that distributor with the back of a fast moving ax, and put a Ford one in there.
SOOoo many people REALLY hate that thing!
Damn right Skippy, ditch the HEI and put a real distributor in it.
I always keep the #1 molded into the cap as 1. Would rather not have to remember that 1 isnt 1.
Normally I agree. Anymore, not all caps come marked as such.
I really like these small tips and advice video in between the larger content videos. Keep it up! Cheers.
Thanks, will do!
Great tip! Im currently sitting at a little pass 7 o’clock! Being the dummy I am, could you explain how to properly use a timing light in the future? Ive watched tons of videos but just don’t understand!
We will probably do that when we get to the end of the detailing.
Great info. Thanks, Jeff and Cam.
Our pleasure!
Hello Jeff and Cam good to see you guys working again and making some good old laughs. Keep up the good work
May you please tell me what do you use to increase idle speed when the AC is on. I did not see any high idle solenoid on the Holley do you have a vacuum switch ?
That is a real struggle. Holley offers a Holley 46-74 - Holley Universal Throttle Solenoid that can help with that.
@@AutoRestoMod hello thankyou for the reply what is used on the mach 1 with the Cleveland and on the current mustang that was used in the video thankyou. Also what to use on a Mach 1 with a autolite carb?
Sorry the many questions
Did you reuse the old distributor hold down or is there one for the HEI type distributor in a Ford. My old Ford distributor stem does not have the same shape as the HEI one.
Where do you wire the HEI distributor? I'm car illiterate and trying to figure it out. Please help
Besides looks why does it matter if the vac advance isn't exactly straight ahead? Less ability to rotate one direction or the other to adjust timing?
Yeah, this one is really for the car show crowd. If functionality is your only concern, then so long as there's enough available rotation to set the timing to your desired spec, it's good. But when a car is expected to sit around with the hood up, inviting the public to check out the engine compartment, having the distributor aligned as intended is a quick indication whether a builder takes enough pride in their work to sweat the details, or not.
If you are at the top of the adjustment and running into the water neck you have it too far over.
I always pop out the distributer move a tooth.I like to keep number 1 wire on number 1 on the cap.
I did have oil pump drive fall out and get lodged in the oil pan about 30 years ago.When ever I rebuild engines I always make sure the clip is on the oil pump drive .
I agree that is the "best method" but I have an unknown engine here that I need to keep running.
Thanks for all of your help! Finally got my 71 f250 engine detailed and back on the road thanks to you guys!
Great to hear!
One of the saddest noises was that little "clink" when my oil pump shaft fell into the pan. To make matters worse, I was unaware that there was a little washer to put on the shaft until AFTER I got the pan and everything else buttoned back up. Hoping there is never a need to pull the distributor out ever again...
Thanks
Lohl.. were ever it runs right. Yep the pump rod came up I heard it drop ping off crank splash in the oil down in pan. I happen to have an old FE out on property, robbed the oil pump rod out of it an used a piece of McDonald's soda straw as a bushing in distributor shaft end pressed oil rod in lowered it down thru intake an it went rite in lined up perfectly. Any time I pull a distributor ever since tht nitemare I shake it back n forth as I raise it up an out so rod will shake loose an not come with it.
That story gave me shivers. LOL
I brazed my star washer on my oil pump drive shaft.
Interesting.
Get that GM distributor off that Ford!
Mine is almost pointed at the distributor. How many posts should I switch?
Get me picture of the distributor: jford@autorestomod.com
heavy duty trucks had the vacuum advance pointed towered the carburetor! the distributors on the hd engines are taller so you can do that. the hei distributors for fords seem tall so one could try positioning it so the vacuum advance points to the carburetor. the plug on the side of the hei often hits the air cleaner with the hei with the vacuum advance pointing the right way! have not tried it but with the hei it my be possible like on the hd engines.
Interesting I did not know that.
I noticed a blue 45 degree water neck on the intake heater hose. The straight up fitting will not pass the cap without issue if failure and creating a leak. Is it an early type?
Earl's type blue fitting?
Cam looking a tad thinner. That the Covid hitting him or just all this heat melting the poor guy?
LOL Cam has been on the Palio diet. Seems to be working for him.
@@AutoRestoMod Good deal! Hope he reaches his goal!!
Show us how to get full 12v from key switch in old mustangs
Bypass the Pink wire. There is a plug with the red with green wire, unplug that and plug a wire into it and run it to the coil.
Thank you sir
I would love to donate a distributor and wire set I took off my 65 i use to run on my old 28oz engine setup that's been converted to electronic ignition
That distributor is bothering more than just me and Cam...
See Jeff....this wouldn't have happened if that was a Starliner!!!!!!
The Car gods are sending you a message
see.....I don't send these for myself...
I'm doing it to save your life
I want you spend more time with your Mus.......I mean your family and friends
They must drop it off here...
Mmmmm, Starliner
Hey guys. Awesome shows. However, I don't wanna be that guy but, if it runs ok the way it was, why change it? Maybe I'm missing something. To me as long as it's running and you can get it in time it shouldn't matter. Please enlighten me. As I said, I don't understand. Being working on cars for all my life. Never had any issues. Thanks all.
I see what you are saying. This is more about making things "just so" so that the engine looks neat.
@@AutoRestoMod I can understand that. You can tell I'm not a perfectionist. Lol!!!
You should do a video on how timing can affect temperature on this older engines.
That is a great idea. I have seen lots of people add new radiators and not even consider that timing could be an issue.
Your face took one for the team, lol...
If I coulda burned that Suburban...
Not sure what your saying the fuel bowls are empty? If they going empty while setting it most likely is plugged vent holes in the carburetor The tiny 8 holes.
It ran out of gas. LOL
Thanks for the tip… i wonder if the hole youtube deal is the reason why im stuck at 13 subscribers lol… it cant be my content lol
I agree. TH-cam! Give us our viewers!
yt is done some say its just way it is
That is troof
Another reason to not use a poxy GM-HEI style distributor on your Ford....
LOL "poxy".
I would not teach people the method of rotating the wires but I guess you have to on a Ford. On a Chevy as I have, nothing drops from the dizzy when it’s pulled. On a Chevy, do it right by pulling the dizzy out. There’s a reason why the #1 wire is marked on the cap in shop manuals. If someone doesn’t know the history of an engine and buys the car and finds the #1 plug wire isn’t in the correct position on the cap, then they may get confused.
They could, but unless you are running a cap labeled 1 it will be where it should be. I agree that the removal method is "preferred". But it can be a real pain with the oil pump hex shaft trying to get that to move into the "just right" position.
one get ride of the junk hei chevy part and put a real ford distributor in
Not my money...