Ebay (ProComp) HEI distributors
Mountain Pass
Joined: Jan 2001
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From: Cullman, Alabama
Bringing this back up, had a Proform HEI in my F250. Driving down the highway about 20 miles from home the engine fluttered and died. No fire. Called a buddy and he pulled me home.
Pulled the distributor, shaft was unusually tight, removed the shaft, top bushing was cooked, the magnetic pickup was a copper birds-nest.
A spirial is cut into the shaft to push oil to the top bushing, but a Chevy turns CW, a Ford runs CCW. Spirial was in the wrong direction for a Ford.
Replaced the pickup, cleaned the burned grease and copper out, greased everything up good, running like new!
Pulled the distributor, shaft was unusually tight, removed the shaft, top bushing was cooked, the magnetic pickup was a copper birds-nest.
A spirial is cut into the shaft to push oil to the top bushing, but a Chevy turns CW, a Ford runs CCW. Spirial was in the wrong direction for a Ford.
Replaced the pickup, cleaned the burned grease and copper out, greased everything up good, running like new!
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Joined: Jul 2007
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I read some old units have crappy gears, also I now know why colo was getting worse mpgs, the vacuum advance in this unit is reallyyyy stifffff, advance is coming really reatrded with this units, im using a pro one with a special bord, besides the retarded advance its awsome..
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