From: <kcadams2@juno.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: bj8 distributor rebuild
> Jorge,
>
> I know of no bushings or shafts available new, however we have had a
> machine shop make the bushings when necessary and the shafts rarely wear
> enough to bother anything. Even the bushings rarely get bad enough to
> give any measurable variation. The main problem we see seems to be the
> advance mechanism wearing and giving an inaccurate advance curve, but
> this can be found by careful inspection of the wear and slack in the unit
> and measuring of the advance curve. The vacuum chamber condition and
> action can be measured in the same way including the point plate. Many
> times good used components can be utilized from good used core units when
> new is not available.
>
> Ken Adams
> Distributor Service
> 12241 Victoria Falls NE
> Albuquerque, NM
> 87111
>
> kcadams2@juno.com
>
>
> Subject: bj8 distributor rebuild
> >
> >
> > > I think the distributor on my BJ8 needs to be rebuilt, it has 80k
> > miles
> > and it has never been rebuilt. What leads me to believe that it
> > needs to be
> > overhauled is that the engine misses and backfires under load at
> > medium high
> > rpm. I cant tell the exact rpm at which this happens because the
> > tachometer
> > is not working, ditto for the speedometer. The points have been in
> > the car
> > for two years but probably have not covered more than 200 miles in
> > that
> > time. The ignition wires are new as are the points and condenser.
> > The engine
> > was timed first with a timing light and followed by checking the
> > dwell angle
> > and setting it to spec. The missing and backfiring is not new as
> > the car
> > has been doing it since I got it back on the road after a decades
> > long
> > slumber. The problem I am looking at is that there are no
> > replacement
> > distributors available on the Moss catalog and the one part I though
> > would
> > be needed for an overhaul, bearings, are also not listed. Those of
> > you who
> > have rebuild your own
> > > distributors please help me and tell me what parts I need and
> > where can I
> > get them.
> > >
> > > Thank You
> > >
> > > Jorge Garcia
> > >
> > > Houston, TX
> > >
> > > 1965 BJ8
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