Was there an ignition control module?

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Nov 14, 2018 | 07:17 AM

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KULTULZ

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Originally Posted by turpentyne

He had the old '58 distributor in there, and it worked, but the afore-mentioned timing light showed things moving about a little, and he said that the plates in the distributor were maybe a little looser than they should be (or the shaft - it is a 60-year-old distributor.

A note on that 57-59 early style DUAL ADVANCE DIST. The upper plate rides on ball bearings instead of having the plates hinged on a pivot bushing (59/ ). Those ***** get gummed up/out of round. If you take the plate off and clean your ***** ... sheesh ... it should start to function correctly. Bad bushings/breaker plates lead to dwell variance and spark scatter which is probably what you are seeing with the timing light.