Can't go wrong with Drew.  These people did a couple of the needle/seat thread repairs for me prior to Drew being an option:


https://daytonaparts.com/

I happen to have .010" stainless shim stock which works well.

The bolt you have is correct; 3/4" long bolt, .62" to the split washer.  AMK sells an identical bolt with the same head marking in 5/8" length.  AMK p/n B-12314 for a package of 4 or B-10192 for a package of 17 (because it is also used for the oil pan on FE without the windage tray).

I agree with 66FAIRLANE.  Look more closely at the distributor gear and the pin.  I had one shear and then lock in a new position on the shaft.  Same symptoms.

Heat is usually your friend in these situations.  Can you apply some?  I bought some FE distributor cores at Carlisle this year.  One was broken off at the bottom of the "bowl" due no doubt to an extraction effort.  It can happen.

No sale at $53K.  Zero option car (except mandatory options) originally.  Too bad it isn't still black jade with nugget gold interior IMO.

I don't know what "motor is co" means, but I agree on losing the 270H.  I had this cam in my 428 CJ Torino and it was a dog.

I agree with everything Kevin posted - the spring numbers are in the parts books but no specs.  The gadget with the two slots and the points cam is the reluctor.  There should be two slot widths, marked something like 10 and 15 or 13 and 18.  The K code engine should like the narrower slot and a pretty quick advance curve.  Depends though on rear gear, state of tune of the engine, etc.


I have found the Mr. Gasket springs to be too light almost all of the time on the FE distributors that I work on.  The light spring controls the first 2/3 or 3/4 of the curve and the heavy spring is just loose, then comes into play to slow the curve as the engine speed increases.  If you run something like the 10 degree slot in the reluctor you will have 20 degrees of mechanical advance at the crank so will be running about 16 degrees of initial spark advance.  With this much initial, I find the Mr. Gasket spring brings the advance in so fast that the initial plus mechanical advance happens too early (low engine speed).  Very hard to say without a distributor machine or lots of trial and error in the car with a timing light and repeated removal of the distributor points plate to juggle springs.