Steve,
Along with removing the oil pan, disassemble your distributor. It is
likely an object like a nut or washer dropped down into the lower portion of
the distributor casting and jammed between the advance counterweights and the
casting: sometimes the distributor explodes...sometimes it is the
gears...sometimes only the driving dog or the split pin sheers. I have
worked on hundreds of English cars, and the experience you describe is
identical to three others I have seen: the last person doing a tune-up
dropped a nut while changing the points...oh well!
Jim Leach, Seattle
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