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Looking for an engine side cover to install the larger body distributor. Shipping would be to zip 44026.

When you posted you were spraying with FF, I was going to suggest you try WoolWax before I read that you actually used it. I think it's thicker and adheres much longer than FF. I know you use a lot of FF, and it seems to be better at flowing into...

My Dad and I built an over restored, Concours award and class winner ‘72 and a stockish ‘69. Both are equally fun in their own way. As are the the budget builds and rust buckets for that matter, they are all fun.

I was disappointed to discover the cap is unobtanium :( Fortunately, I have a 78 parked in a field at my parents house and was able to battle the wasps under the hood (without getting stung) and pull the cap and rotor from that. Both of them...

I appreciate all of the responses, and saw how much editing I needed to do on my "voice to text" post from earlier, lol. I walked away from that mess after the cap blew up, left my tools and everything where they were because I tried to pick them...

That is how I vented mine, drilled a hole to mount it in my air cleaner. Seems plausible to get fumes from there in intense heat that build up in the cap, right?

This came up with the algorithm on the bottom of the page. https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/big-cap-distributor-venting.1362690/

I've had this happen, blew out a side of the distributor cap, and the 2F still ran fine. I think it was due to poor ventilation allowing explosive gases to build up in the cap.

I don't know that I have seen one blow up, broken from bad bearing/bushing in the shaft allow the rotor to strike the contacts - yes. Wiggle the rotor toward and away from the engine and bumpers - it should have very little play. Vac leak in...

I would check your oil dip stick for a smell of gasoline. An electric arch is not going to expose like that. Probably twenty years ago I used an old school self contained jumper start. It has an off on switch to isolate the jumpers battery. Are...

I should have mentioned, no gas smell on the dipstick. When you responded and didn’t know the answer, I knew I was screwed, lol.

So about 1976, in my wife’s VW Beetle, I was driving on the interstate and bang, car quit. When I lifted the hood (the one in the back of course), the distributer cap was in several pieces, hanging by the ignition wires. Lucky enough I had...

Ozone? is that the stuff that builds up inside the cap? that's why there are those vent tubes on the cap that, in a 60, go to an inlet filter and a vacuumish source. look in the 60s tech for more explosion stories

This is going to be my issue. I retrofitted a line to my air cleaner, I drilled a hole to get vac advance, as someone here suggested. I had my hood open the whole time I was working on my clutch slave cylinder, and it’s hotter than the surface of...

All OEM parts, no startling fluid, etc. It started and immediately... BAM. I am just grateful it didn't do this on my long drive home, as I had to let it stall at every light and then start it up again in first or second gear to get home.

Hey guys, I have a 77 2F, my dizzy literally just blew up with a bang and pieces all over the engine bay. Backstory, I only drive in the summer, and have only had it out a few times this year. I drove about a half hour away, pulling a trailer, to...