[Jacques Reed]

Hi Nathan,

Glad to help. Yes, yours is a bit different to mine. Guess they made a few different models over the sidevalve years.

My dizzy is a 2 bolt "Crab" too. Suggest replacing both bushings in it to get accurate timing. Amazing how a little bit of sloppiness there greatly affects the opening and closing points on the jig.

May find a post I made a while back on 14-09-12 titled "Timing a Ford "Crab" Distributor" Helpful.

The author of the attachment was a New Zealander with years of Ford Flathead/Sidevalve V8 experience as a motor mechanic.

He recommended, among other things, using a piece of thin paper to take the slack out of the rotor on the distributor shaft which exists even with new rotors. I tried using PTFE thread tape there instead and it works great and less likely to perish with time.

Cheers,

Jacques