[Tigers] Frozen distributor

[Jay Laifman]

Here is a totally different but similar issue with distributors.  My first
car was my Alpine.  I got it when I was in high school and drove it for
years, including through college.  I always thought I'd give it more power
when I had money.  Then came law school and the car sat for 3 years.  After
law school, I bought myself a newer, admittedly more powerful car (a used
911).  I drove that for a couple years.  Then decided it was time to get
the Alpine going again and possibly restore it.  It was nice to be back in
it.  But compared to the 911, it just didn't seem to have much power.  So
that helped make my decision to hop up the Alpine.  I got a special Holbay
H120 high flow head, Holbay H120 rally cam, dual side draft Webers, custom
55 over pistons, lightened flywheel etc.  Then came time to pay attention
to the distributor and recurve it to work with the different engine.  What
did I find?  The dang advance weights were rusted stuck on the plate!!!!
That meant that the reason my car was feeling so down on power was not
because I was comparing it to the 911.  It was because I wasn't getting any
advance.  Ugh.  Had I noticed that before pulling the trigger on the hipo
engine, I may never have gone that route.



On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Stu via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Its's free!  I had it soaking in PB Blaster for a couple nights, and gave
> it one more try before switching to something else.  With a foot long dowel
> and my rubber hammer I gave it a few measured raps in the "rotate"
> direction.  It moved!  A few more raps and soon I was able to move it by
> hand, back and forth, more than enough.
>
> I only had a few minutes tonight, but my plan is to clean the penetrating
> oil away, lift it up a bit, and coat the mating surfaces with anti seize
> stuff.  I've got some gooey old silvery Permatex stuff that should do the
> trick.
>
> Just in time for British car week...
>
> Thanks for all the hints.
>
> Stu
>
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:34 PM, <CoolVT at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I've had the same problem.  I found if I ran the car and warmed the
>> engine that I could turn it to set the timing.  A cold engine, forget it. I
>> think this issue has come up before. If not here then on another site for
>> Ford engines.
>> Mark L
>>
>> In a message dated 5/21/2017 6:12:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> tigers at autox.team.net writes:
>>
>> Every decade or so I throw a new set of points and condenser into my
>> stock 260, and this is the year.
>>
>> All went well, new points in, dwell set, etc.  The only problem?  When I
>> started to set the timing, I found that the distributor is frozen to the
>> block.  The clamp is plenty loose, so its not that.  I've tried a little
>> careful tapping here and there, no result.
>>
>> It's usually a bit oily near the distributror base, so its unlikely
>> rust.  More likely some sort of dissimilar metals corrosion thing.
>>
>> Any ideas out there?
>>
>> Stu
>>
>>
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