I was driving my 65 home the other night and all of a sudden it lost all power. Somehow I limped home and got it safely parked. I opened up the hood the next day to see what was wrong. First off I noticed that the choke pull off linkage had dissappeared and the carb was loose.
Tonight I made me a new pull off linkage and bolted down the carb with some new nuts with a bit of blue loctite.
I cranked her over and she almost did not start......kinda sounded like the timeing was way off but I had reset it when I had installed the Pertronix unit last fall.
I unscrewed the dustributor cap and bumped the engine over with a screwdriver on the starter solinoid. After indexing the rotor to the number one cyllinder a couple times the next time did it the rotor wobbled backwards.
I pulled the distributor and found that the pin holding the gear on the shaft was worn down to just a thin strip of metal......
Guess I was lucky I took twenty years to wear down that far........
So from now on when I do a tune up I am going to pull the distributor to check out the pin.
Just another fifty cent part that can leave you stranded.....