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First thanks to you all for all the great advice, you guys are great!

Here's my new problem I ordered a vacumm advance for my distributor, but it's not the same, doesn't even come close, yet the one I ordered say's from 1948 to 1962 what gives, did this guy also change the distributor? I have a feeling I fell in love and bought a 1950 pickup, thats made up of parts from 10 different years.

I now know how to change the valve covers, thanks to you guys....

Something to laugh about "My wife say's "stop trying to be a mechanic Jorge! and stick to police work, but I'll never give up I love this truck!

jlr,

From whom did you buy the vacuum advance? What is the part number?

I do not know much about 48-54 cars but I am pretty certain that the vacuum advance are different for cars and trucks (at least the advance I have on a car distributor has a different angle off the block from all the 235/261 truck vacuum advances that I have seen).

Any chance of posting a photo?

Tim

I BOUGHT IT FROM CHEVY DUTY PART#83-274 THE ANGLE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN THE ONE I HAVE ON NOW.

jlr.

[img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/lederman/images/83-274.JPG[/img]

The image above, from the Chevy Duty catalog, looks like the units on my engines ('54 235 and '60 261).

Tim

Thats the one I ordered but the one on the engine right now, the base is at an angle.