Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Have you ever had your TD or TF quit on you for no reason? A stupid question, I know, but after what I just discovered, a valid one...My TD would quit after about 3 days of normal driving. It appeared to be electrical, so I would check the distributor every time. After years of this, I would open the hood and move the tach drive out of the way to see the distributor better. Finding nothing wrong, I would check fuses, fuel level, etc. and then it would start right up again. After a number of these incidents, I finally got it through my thick head, saw what was happening, and reset the distributor so the tach drive box would not fall against the contact nut and short it out...again.
Larry Dussack
Friendswood, TX
(Since T-series distributors incorporate a helical drive gear which meshes with the cam shaft, it is possible to have the distributor timed correctly in any of 4 different positions, 90° apart. Reference to any factory illustration will show that the distributor should be situated so that the ignition coil feed terminal is in the 4 o'clock position when viewed from above. This insures that the tach cable and or tach reduction gearbox can't ground out the terminal.-Ed.)
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