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| | | | Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 322 Professional procrastinator | | Professional procrastinator Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 322 | I am looking for someone to go through my distributor and make it good as nearly new. I noticed the gear on the bottom and the cam for the points has some rotational play. That does not seem right to me. Maybe there is a roll pin worn out or something. Has anybody used a shop they would care to recommend? There is nobody here at the ends of the Earth, AKA Santa Rosa, CA, where radiator shops have gone the way of the TV repair shops.
1947.2 GMC 1/2T SWB panel
1947.2 GMC 1/2T long bed
1948 GMC 1/2T short bed
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,091 Authorized Pest | | Authorized Pest Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,091 | Well, you could also post in the Whole Wild West Coast Side Lot to see who may know of a place. That's what I would do. 
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804"Charlie" - The Stovebolt FlagshipIn the Gallery"Success comes in 'cans' ..." | | | | | Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 6,951 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 6,951 | Send it to Cardone. www.cardone.comThey rebuilt the dizzy in a '64 Galaxie for me 13 or so years ago and it's smooth as silk.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 | I drill the rivet hole a little bit oversize and use a piece of tough (not hard) steel like a piece of 5/32" 7018 alloy low hydrogen welding rod as an oversized drive pin.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,260 "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! | | "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,260 | A quick internet search turns up plenty of reliable hot rod shops. Including Model A guys like Vern Tardell. Dude even wrote a book on how to hot rod them. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 322 Professional procrastinator | | Professional procrastinator Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 322 | Thank you everybody. I appreciate the replies. I started digging through the cache of parts I have and I found a distributor with no noticeable play like the other two that I have. For the time being, I am going to use that one and see how it goes. This is going on a donor engine that was, I am told, a runner until the day it was pulled. It is a 1947 228. I never heard it run. I want to run it and see what it is about. I have a 52 or 53 248 that had been rebuilt a short time before the truck was ruined. Maybe 10,000 miles. That may be what ultimately goes into the truck later this summer. In which case, I will use the distributor that came with that motor. I would just rather keep this original truck as original as possible.
1947.2 GMC 1/2T SWB panel
1947.2 GMC 1/2T long bed
1948 GMC 1/2T short bed
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