well, my distributer in my 69's engine has gone dead, not sure which style it was, its a 1600dp, i need to get a new one asap, question is, 009 or 050?
distributer?
Nov 30, 2003
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Rebuild it... That's kind of a fancy word for punch the pin out of the bottom, and pull the shaft, then clean and re-assemble. It will get you a few more miles. When you get another dist, keep the fixed one as a spare. I pulled the dist out of Clayton, my 70 bug. And it was so…
Read the full replyNM guys, dad told me 050 is for hi-po engines only.
Why don't you try the stock one?
Exille wrote in this freaking newsgroup:
Rebuild it... That's kind of a fancy word for punch the pin out of the bottom, and pull the shaft, then clean and re-assemble. It will get you a few more miles. When you get another dist, keep the fixed one as a spare.
I pulled the dist out of Clayton, my 70 bug. And it was so stiff, that I could barely turn it by hand. After 20 minutes with a pan of solvent, and a few drops of motor oil, it spun almost freely.
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