| chuckbrandt |
07-15-2003 08:12 AM |
Rebuilt Distributors Won't Fit
Have any of you had this problem? I was rebuilding a 289 the other day and the distributor was worn out. I bought 2 different rebuilt distributors and neither of them would fit into the block! It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen! So I ordered a MSD distributor just to see if it would fit, and of course it did. So I kept it and moved on, but still I wonder what gives on the rebuilt ones.
Chuck
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| Woodz428 |
07-15-2003 08:17 AM |
You weren't clear on what didn't fit. Did it not go into the hole or did it not seat? The only explanation I could think is that either the dist. you got were incorrect (but getting 2 is unlikely) the other is that the oil pump hex wasn't lining up causing it to not seat. I've had to rotate the engine back and forth a little sometimes to get them to drop in.
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| chuckbrandt |
07-15-2003 08:23 AM |
Dist housing would not fit into block hole.
This is a 289. The portion of the distributor housing that has the o-ring in it, would not fit into the corresponding hole in the block. With a calipers it measures an interference fit by about .004. The distributors were identical the the original in all other respects.
CDB
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| Woodz428 |
07-15-2003 10:27 AM |
Does sound strange. Since they were rebuilt I guess it's possible that the surface was blasted with a coarse enough material that it raised the surface some. I've never encountered the phenomenom, but have a supply of distributors I use to rebuild.
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