Dr. "Watson",
Excellent observation.
You are correct and in fact an engine that lacks advance would sound VERY
sick. It would really labor to RPM. Although it should have been difficult
after the "retard" for it to idle at the same RPM as before. The idle RPM
should have dropped significantly if the retard actually rotated the
distributor.
OK, so all of us are pretty pathetic if we have nothing better to do than
beat up this point.
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-----Original Message-----
From: DrMayf [mailto:drmayf@teknett.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:54 AM
To: Steve Laifman; Larry Paulick
Cc: Ronak, TP (Timothy); Tiger Maill List
Subject: Re: Guess
Ugh...I smeell something wrong here. The dist shaft rotates counter
clockwise doesn't it? SO wouldn't a loose housing that is rotated by the
torque fron the shaft be going in the retard direction? Yeah, I think that
is correct, but somebody check that thought. So a loose distributor can't
get advanced by itself can it? Has to have outside help (like the mechanic)?
mayf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Laifman" <SLaifman@socal.rr.com>
To: "Larry Paulick" <larry.p@erols.com>
Cc: "Ronak, TP (Timothy)" <Timothy.Ronak@AkzoNobel.com>; "Tiger Maill List"
<tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: Guess
> Larry wrote:
>
> > I too am using the cheap chrome distributor tie down. I think this is a
> >chrome pot metal part, and this may be part of the problem with keeping
> >it tight.
> >
>
> Guys, the TRUE failure finally shows it's ugly head. The "chrome"
> distributor hold down is made of pot metal, and bends under load. This
> allows the clamping action to diminish to near zero, and allows the
> distributor to react to the rotating torque and slip.
>
> Now, most of you probably either know this already, or deduced it from
> Larry's note, above.
>
> What you may be unaware of, and the reason I am writing at all, is that
> the pretty chrome thermostat housing, with the huge O-ring great looking
> seal, is no less a POS. It too is pot metal. The clamping bends the ears
> and lets it become loose over time. Additional tightening just bends it
> some more, until there is no tension holding the housing on and it leaks.
>
> I totally recommend NOT using these, and chrome or cermakote an iron
> one, or get the Aluminum casting to match the 4 barrel manifold.
>
> The die cast housing is not TOTALLY worthless, though. It is also placed
> on the galvanic table such that it sacrificially corrodes away from the
> inside, saving your aluminum manifold and water pump (if any). A
> magnesium stack under the radiator cap in the expansion tank will do the
> same thing, and you won't find out it's life is over with a hole in the
> side of your thermostat housing - if it doesn't leak like a sieve from
> no gasket compression first. ;-)
>
> --
>
> Steve Laifman
> Editor
> http://www.TigersUnited.com
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