[Tigers] Engine Woes - Part Two

[Shaun Laughy]

Thanks, Curtis.  The distributor is actually a stock Ford, I believe,
with a Mallory Unilite conversion module.  Do you know it the Ford
distributor is two-piece as well?

Shaun

-----Original Message-----
From: 65tiger at comcast.net [mailto:65tiger at comcast.net] 
Sent: June 1, 2008 11:43 PM
To: Shaun Laughy; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Engine Woes - Part Two


Shaun,
One thing to look at is the Mallory Unilite distributor.  It is not a
billet distributor shaft.  It is actually two pieces with a friction
lock in the middle.  It CAN and will SHIFT.  I was having this problem
with my timing.  With the friction lock as tight as it would go, I could
turn the rotor and change the timing.  
The solution is to bring the two parts back into alignment, 
tighten parts, re-install the distributor, and re-time the 
engine.  I did this twice and tossed the Unilite for a MSD billet
distributor.  Attached is a picture of the Unilite and MSD for
reference.  The balancer may not be the problem.  
Curtis