Explorer 351?

[stupidboy]

I guess I am cheap. I took the stock 68 Bronco distributor apart, cut the housing down with a hacksaw removing everything above the clamp flange. Hit it with a belt sander to make it pretty. Then I tapped the shaft hole for a 3/8-16 screw then install a .500 long screw with some silicone on the threads and a washer. Then I cut the shaft off so it was short enough not to hit the bottom of the screw (plug) in the housing. It has been on the engine 5-6 years and several thousand miles and never leaked or given me a reason to even look at it. It takes up almost zero room and I mounted to coil packs over top of it.

I can;t see why you could not do that with any 351 distributor if it has the correct gear on it.

Pictures and a tech article would be perfect. Thanks

 

[Oldtimer]

I guess I am cheap. I took the stock 68 Bronco distributor apart, cut the housing down with a hacksaw removing everything above the clamp flange. Hit it with a belt sander to make it pretty. Then I tapped the shaft hole for a 3/8-16 screw then install a .500 long screw with some silicone on the threads and a washer. Then I cut the shaft off so it was short enough not to hit the bottom of the screw (plug) in the housing. It has been on the engine 5-6 years and several thousand miles and never leaked or given me a reason to even look at it. It takes up almost zero room and I mounted to coil packs over top of it.

I can;t see why you could not do that with any 351 distributor if it has the correct gear on it.

So . . .
You did not replace the distributor with a cam sync (to let the computer know where engine TDC is),
You eliminated the distributor, but kept the cam gear and distributor shaft to drive the oil pump.

What does the computer reference to know where engine TDC is?

 

[rocknhorse76]

It sounds like the tool is just for rotating the shaft to get it to drop in the cam gear and pump shaft.

It actually just aligns the rotor in the sensor with the pickup and keeps the shaft from spinning away from that spot while you drop the housing into the block. You do this with the engine at TDC on the compression stroke for cylinder #1. This ensures that the ecu receives the correct info for injector timing. It doesn’t matter where the sensor connector points as long as your wiring reaches it and it doesn’t interfere with anything. It’s actually easier to drop a cam sync in than a distributor when you use that tool!!

 

[pcf_mark01]

So . . .
You did not replace the distributor with a cam sync (to let the computer know where engine TDC is),
You eliminated the distributor, but kept the cam gear and distributor shaft to drive the oil pump.

What does the computer reference to know where engine TDC is?

Correct I did not use sequential EFI instead batch fire. In a Bronco (and most EFI conversions in my opinion) the idle smoothness from sequential is lost.