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chrs1961815 · 04-19-2020, 07:15 AM

I do believe the very early plates had different points so that might be your problem.

Sunnybrook Farm · 04-19-2020, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by chrs1961815

I do believe the very early plates had different points so that might be your problem.

I have never seen any other than in a photo but the early points would just slip in with out unscrewing the nut on the bottom of the plate. They changed it because people could steal them or the car, can't remember exactly. So you have to lose the timing to change the points after they modified the design. I have a couple of the 28 design, the layout of where things are is a little different but it works fine, I think I put a new fiber plate on one but made it new so it would line up. Could be Ford contracted with several vendors to make the things.

mach0415 · 04-19-2020, 09:06 AM

Is there a resource anyone is aware of to acquire the older style points? Thanks

04-19-2020, 07:15 AM	#1
chrs1961815 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Spring Grove, Illinois Posts: 1,371	Re: Distributor Upper Contact Plate I do believe the very early plates had different points so that might be your problem. __________________ "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

04-19-2020, 09:06 AM	#3
mach0415 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Chester, SC Posts: 162	Re: Distributor Upper Contact Plate Is there a resource anyone is aware of to acquire the older style points? Thanks __________________ Thanks, Mark in SC "We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful." -- By society, who is still arguing over who said it.