[D. Jones]

I had my truck with the front mounted distributor die mysteriously a couple of times. I finally figured it out. I had serviced the fan hub and one drop of oil would fall on the distributor run in thru the timing set screw and short the points to ground. The point sets that I used had a slightly longer spring and when installed the clearance to the distributor housing was measured in thousandths of an inch. Little things can sometimes make a big difference. Granted front mounted distributors can be a pain to work on but once I did everything right it works fine.