fix your distributor 

Top video again guys, but you are more forgiving than I am. I'd rub that distributor with the back of a fast moving ax, and put a Ford one in there.

I really like these small tips and advice video in between the larger content videos. Keep it up! Cheers.

I always keep the #1 molded into the cap as 1. Would rather not have to remember that 1 isnt 1.

Great info. Thanks, Jeff and Cam.

Thanks for all of your help! Finally got my 71 f250 engine detailed and back on the road thanks to you guys!

Where do you wire the HEI distributor? I'm car illiterate and trying to figure it out. Please help

Hello Jeff and Cam good to see you guys working again and making some good old laughs. Keep up the good work May you please tell me what do you use to increase idle speed when the AC is on. I did not see any high idle solenoid on the Holley do you have a vacuum switch ?

Great tip! Im currently sitting at a little pass 7 o’clock! Being the dummy I am, could you explain how to properly use a timing light in the future? Ive watched tons of videos but just don’t understand!

Did you reuse the old distributor hold down or is there one for the HEI type distributor in a Ford. My old Ford distributor stem does not have the same shape as the HEI one.

One of the saddest noises was that little "clink" when my oil pump shaft fell into the pan. To make matters worse, I was unaware that there was a little washer to put on the shaft until AFTER I got the pan and everything else buttoned back up. Hoping there is never a need to pull the distributor out ever again...

Thanks

I always pop out the distributer move a tooth.I like to keep number 1 wire on number 1 on the cap. I did have oil pump drive fall out and get lodged in the oil pan about 30 years ago.When ever I rebuild engines I always make sure the clip is on the oil pump drive .

Besides looks why does it matter if the vac advance isn't exactly straight ahead? Less ability to rotate one direction or the other to adjust timing?

I brazed my star washer on my oil pump drive shaft.

Get that GM distributor off that Ford!

Lohl.. were ever it runs right. Yep the pump rod came up I heard it drop ping off crank splash in the oil down in pan. I happen to have an old FE out on property, robbed the oil pump rod out of it an used a piece of McDonald's soda straw as a bushing in distributor shaft end pressed oil rod in lowered it down thru intake an it went rite in lined up perfectly. Any time I pull a distributor ever since tht nitemare I shake it back n forth as I raise it up an out so rod will shake loose an not come with it.

You should do a video on how timing can affect temperature on this older engines.

heavy duty trucks had the vacuum advance pointed towered the carburetor! the distributors on the hd engines are taller so you can do that. the hei distributors for fords seem tall so one could try positioning it so the vacuum advance points to the carburetor. the plug on the side of the hei often hits the air cleaner with the hei with the vacuum advance pointing the right way! have not tried it but with the hei it my be possible like on the hd engines.

Cam looking a tad thinner. That the Covid hitting him or just all this heat melting the poor guy?

Mine is almost pointed at the distributor. How many posts should I switch?

See Jeff....this wouldn't have happened if that was a Starliner!!!!!! The Car gods are sending you a message see.....I don't send these for myself... I'm doing it to save your life I want you spend more time with your Mus.......I mean your family and friends

Hey guys. Awesome shows. However, I don't wanna be that guy but, if it runs ok the way it was, why change it? Maybe I'm missing something. To me as long as it's running and you can get it in time it shouldn't matter. Please enlighten me. As I said, I don't understand. Being working on cars for all my life. Never had any issues. Thanks all.

Show us how to get full 12v from key switch in old mustangs

I would love to donate a distributor and wire set I took off my 65 i use to run on my old 28oz engine setup that's been converted to electronic ignition

Your face took one for the team, lol...

Thanks for the tip… i wonder if the hole youtube deal is the reason why im stuck at 13 subscribers lol… it cant be my content lol

yt is done some say its just way it is

Not sure what your saying the fuel bowls are empty? If they going empty while setting it most likely is plugged vent holes in the carburetor The tiny 8 holes.

Another reason to not use a poxy GM-HEI style distributor on your Ford....

I would not teach people the method of rotating the wires but I guess you have to on a Ford. On a Chevy as I have, nothing drops from the dizzy when it’s pulled. On a Chevy, do it right by pulling the dizzy out. There’s a reason why the #1 wire is marked on the cap in shop manuals. If someone doesn’t know the history of an engine and buys the car and finds the #1 plug wire isn’t in the correct position on the cap, then they may get confused.

one get ride of the junk hei chevy part and put a real ford distributor in