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40cpe · 04-11-2017, 07:42 PM

My '55 came to me with a loadamatic distributor. I ordered a Cardone reman mechanical advance distributor for a '59 from Autozone. Awesome service, free, fast shipping. I put it in and it ran great. For a while. Today I was testing my power steering shim job and on the way back home the car started missing and jerking badly. It died as I rolled into my drive. I got it in the shop and replaced the coil with a known good one, no help. I had an old flathead distributor and used the condenser from it to replace the one in the distributor and it fired right up. It has been well known on the flathead forum that many condensers are no good now. What brand have you guys been using that are generally serviceable for our Y blocks?
Thanks,
Gene

04-11-2017, 07:42 PM	#1
40cpe Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Star, MS Posts: 4,120	Who makes a good condenser? My '55 came to me with a loadamatic distributor. I ordered a Cardone reman mechanical advance distributor for a '59 from Autozone. Awesome service, free, fast shipping. I put it in and it ran great. For a while. Today I was testing my power steering shim job and on the way back home the car started missing and jerking badly. It died as I rolled into my drive. I got it in the shop and replaced the coil with a known good one, no help. I had an old flathead distributor and used the condenser from it to replace the one in the distributor and it fired right up. It has been well known on the flathead forum that many condensers are no good now. What brand have you guys been using that are generally serviceable for our Y blocks? Thanks, Gene