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Old Apr 30, 2011 | 07:40 PM
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strange distributor?

I have been working on my boat getting ready for summer 95 351ho. I found i had some sticky lifters so pulled the intake and put in a set of rhodes lifters, i also pulled the distributor which was pretty coroded where the aluminum housing met the steel block. I put it all back togeather today and couldnt get it to run for anything, i loosen the distruibutor hold down clamp and it fired right up. i found as soon as i started to tighten the hold down bolt it died. If i pushed the housing foreward while it was loose it died, pushed backward it ran fine. Is it just the bushing? Everything was running good when i shut it down last fall. I bieleve its a breakerless malroy
 
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Old May 1, 2011 | 02:17 AM
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i would check for play in the shaft and any wiring issues that might cause an open or short when the dizzy is in just the right place.

very odd problem indeed.
 
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Old May 1, 2011 | 05:33 PM
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figured it out. the amplifier inside the distributor was shorted to the case so when i tightend it down to the block it would ground out.
 
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