mallory unilite installation

[miletwo]

One of the POs of my FJ55 installed a Mallory Unilite dizzy on her. GREAT! Question I have is this. I believe it was installed incorrectly since I can't see the timing mark anywhere when I tried to adjust the timing. Since I had to tear her down I decided to pull the dizzy and walk through installation just to be sure it was in correctly. Does anyone know if this is accomplished in the same manner that an OEM dizzy is installed? Any help/links to mallory installation docs would be great. Google has been no help in finding either the Mallory company or any install docs on how to go about putting it in correctly.

Thanks,

Jeremy

 

[ken_79-fj40]

I have a mallory points distributor in mine. It's very tough to see the BB on the flywheel, the thing jumps out of the window with the slightest touch. You might want to rotate the flywheel by hand and paint the bb with some white paint to make it more visible. If it was way off, the truck would likely not run very well at all. But if you do have to pull it, it shouldn't be any different than stock. I pulled mine out once, and didn't do anything special.

 

[miletwo]

Thanks. I finally found install instructions here: http://www.centuryperformance.com/mallory/techfiles/MA1214M_UniliteDist_RevH.pdf

Thanks,

Jeremy

 

[miletwo]

Removed from way PO had screwed up the install, reinstalled using same procedure as stock (in manual) and BAM! Up comes the timing bead... dialed it in and now she runs as smooth as silk (okay, not silk, maybe as smooth as egyptian cotton or something).

Thanks for the feedback folks,

Jeremy

 

[haystax]

Mallory is physically located in Carson City, Nevada. You should be able to google their phone number from that. I had a Unilite on a Ford 460 and called the company with some questions about voltage regulators and such. They were really helpful and actually had a guy that took time to answer my questions. It sounds like you got it all figured out though now.