In my opinion (opinion only), the Mallory stuff of today is of poor quality.
Perhaps their quality had improved in the last 10 years, but I've only
experienced failures with their products (gauges included) in the past (as
well as several other folks that I know). Of particular comment to the
mechanical one you speak of, a friend and I tried to tune his 261 with one
of those and it just wouldn't run right (troublesome). We ended up
switching to different vacuum advance dist. resulting in a much better
runner (we figured we probably needed to shave some of the weights, but
didn't want to mess with that - inexperience?). The original Mallory dual
point vacuum distributor (the one they made in the 50s) for Chev inlines is
a nice unit, though. Other inliners I know seem to have the same general
comment. Perhaps it's my inexperience with strict mechanical advance....or
an opinion formed in the 70s and 80s....or I haven't talked to enough
folks?????
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Lubow" <alosteo@uswest.net>
To: <jonesal@u.washington.edu>
Cc: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Mallory distributor
> Allen
>
> I'm running a new Mallory Unilite mechanical distributor on my 235 motor
in
> my '50 Chevy 1/2 ton pickup. The part number is 4518001. This was
> recommended by the tech at Chevy duty. I think it's similar (or the same)
as
> the one Patrick's sells. I had also read about it in an article in Auto
> Restorer magazine. I've had it for a few months, and been happy with it
so
> far. Why do so say these are "troublesome"?
>
> Alan
> '50 Chevy 1/2 ton pickup
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