78cordoba
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Not sure just a valuecraft one for a 78 cordoba
Distributor issues
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78cordoba
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I was told i needed 12 volts at the coil and you only need one with points but it was by a chevy guy
78cordoba
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So i found a few issues with the so called rebuilt distributor tonight the reluctor wheel looks really wore out and pitted and there are notches in the mechanical advance that look wore out also alot of up and down play in it as well and springs are different let me know your thoughts thanks
Aeronet
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Those reluctors look normal. Those are the factory springs. There is up and down play in those distributors. There should be no side to side play. I say the distributor is fine.
You need a ballast resistor when running the factory setup. If I remember right, the coil is supposed to run on 9 volts.
You need a ballast resistor when running the factory setup. If I remember right, the coil is supposed to run on 9 volts.
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OK that distrib is a hack job one took a points distrib and put electronics (mopar) Guts in it. Two completely different cases.I bet the top bushing is sitting high or the rotor is not all the way down, the carbon looks runbbed not arced to me. Get another distributor. Two different animals
Aeronet
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I see it now. I stand corrected.
That's a mess. I am surprised a store sold it.
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Yep. Further, most coils will say right on the side of them "for use with external resistor" or some such,
but yeah, Mopar factory electronic ignition requires a ballast resistor - a different one from use with points.
@78cordoba Hey do us a favor either state or show what all you installed. Probably something simple, but dump that distributor.
Aeronet
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Why would anybody do such a thing? Is there a shortage of factory castings for electronic distrubutors?
Aeronet
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And where did you get the distributor?
Hell I have a tub of them for scrap!
Aeronet
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I missed the obvious, but it never occured to me that someone would convert a points distributor to electronic since you would almost have to have a electronic distributor on hand to do it.
Chevy guy again?
Chevy guy again?
70bigblockdodge
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I put a RB electronic, weights up in a low deck points distributor, everything lined up okay. I know it probably is a hack job, but it is my hack. I this really a problem or is it just a shitty reman, and hack job? Just asking? I know about vacuum advance difference.
Believe it or not the cases are the same it is the shaft style and also the length.
I have to get a pic of how the upper bushing is in the two, would explain it easily. I have no idea why some one would do that one. Now I have done a electronic in a points housing for a customer once and it worked out well. Numbers car. Took a bit to figure it out and also to get it to phase right also. Was not just a bolt in thing. Thought he was stoned till he explained why.
78cordoba
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it was originally a lean burn set up block had bad main and rod bearings decide just to buy a rebuilt block my builder had gotten from a friend it has a cloyes timing chain, com cams cl21-671-4 cam and a edelbrock 1407 thats as much i know i had a shitty builder that only left me with chicken scratches for reciepts. i get mad just thinking about it
78cordoba
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it didnt run old block has bad bearings the reluctor has a slot for clockwise sb rotation and bb rotation the roll pin was in the small block slot exhast is wide open at the moment
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