What a day! All I wanted to do was install the lighter springs of the advance curve kit into my Duraspark distro.
First, the two screws holding the vacuum advance broke off at the heads.....screws were frozen tight! No amount of drilling and easy out was going to work so I grabbed the spare off the 79 Ford van. Went and modified that one per the pdf I got from Crane (one light spring and one stock spring and use the shorter slot on the governor). I'm all set and pulling the old POS out and lining up the van's distro. "CLINK!" Pulled the "new" distro and sure enough, no shaft.
Sooooo....any easy way to fish it out? How do I remove and re-install the distros without doing this?
Any idea if the van's distro will give me problems?
Thanks!
Mikey.....Groan!!!!
First, the two screws holding the vacuum advance broke off at the heads.....screws were frozen tight! No amount of drilling and easy out was going to work so I grabbed the spare off the 79 Ford van. Went and modified that one per the pdf I got from Crane (one light spring and one stock spring and use the shorter slot on the governor). I'm all set and pulling the old POS out and lining up the van's distro. "CLINK!" Pulled the "new" distro and sure enough, no shaft.
Sooooo....any easy way to fish it out? How do I remove and re-install the distros without doing this?
Any idea if the van's distro will give me problems?
Thanks!
Mikey.....Groan!!!!