<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Stu via Tigers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Just in time for British car week...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks for all the hints.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Stu</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:34 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:CoolVT@aol.com" target="_blank">CoolVT@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>Mark L</div>
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<div>In a message dated 5/21/2017 6:12:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a> writes:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small">Every decade or so I throw a
new set of points and condenser into my stock 260, and this is the year.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small">It's usually a bit oily near
the distributror base, so its unlikely rust. More likely some sort of
dissimilar metals corrosion thing.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small">Any ideas out there?</div>
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