'Da Cap Don't Fit

Napa sells me the parts but neither cap nor rotor fit my dist. The cap's too big. So I return them to NAPA and mail order from another AG supplier, thinking that the Napa books must be wrong.

The new cap and rotor came in the mail today, and they are also too big. It looks like Napa books are right and I have a nonstandard distributor in my sidemount distributor hole.

I'll go out and hunt up the numbers off the dist this afternoon and see if AutoZone can cross reference the cap and rotor to keep me up and running for the short term.

But I also think the dist shaft might be bent (it wobbles a tad while the engine is running, so I probably want to throw the whole thing away anyway.

Anyone have a used sidemount dist that they want to let go cheap (now that I have the complete tuneup kit for it)?

Thanks
Don8NAZ

Napa took 10 minutes (and $25) to find that exact replacement of AL-165/AL-150 for cap/rotor. They could only tell me that it looked like a Prestolite product and was off an industrial engine - maybe a generator or water/oil pumping station.

I gotta go move dirt.

Once you find out what that non-standard distributor is from, I for one would appreciate it if you'd mention what it comes off of. Don't throw it away btw, especially if it's old. Sure as shoot'n, as soon as you do, you'll discover it was one of those incredibly rare ones that Ford built that way when there was a strike that caused a shortage of distributors on the production line, or some story like that.

I'm not sure I could get my heart into pounding the shaft of my one of a kind distributor. I'll wait until I have a replacement in hand.

Surely someone out there has a sidemount distributor that they want to part with, to go to a good home, only used on weekends, regular meals, occassional shower, etc!

"That no matter how high the Eagle flies; a hammer can still break a window."

He had an unusual sense of humor. -9N'er