flathead timing tool

Gotta give the guy credit. Wish I had thought of it first. It should work great. The only thing is, if the distributor has problems, such as sloppy bushings, frozen brake piston, inadequate points spring pressure, etc, you will not know until you put it on your car and the car runs crappy. If everything is up to snuff, the results would be fine.
 
Gary, that tool does only one part of timing your early flathead distributor. It sets the initial (just at idle) advance to "factory spec" only. It does not have anything to do with point gap (dwell), etc.

Edit: (Simultaneous post with Russ above) ... Russ is correct, of course, it certainly won't test for any of the problems he mentioned, and more.)

(This normally starts a great debate over the best way to set up a distributor.)
 
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Just rebuilt a spare dist for my 35. Using my sun machine. Works great and you can see what is happening. After setting the dwell i checked point gap. And it was right on about .015 with dwell at 34 deg,you can also ck mechanical advance and vacuum advance. Don
 
This device is alot cheaper than trying to find a Wilson distributor unit which I found for $350.00. Somebody is alway thinking. For me it's always after the fact. I be interested in find out how it preforms. And put my device for sale
 
I think our own Bruce Lancaster was working on or has written plans on how you can make this same tool on your own for about a 1/10th the cost.
 
"This device is alot cheaper than trying to find a Wilson distributor unit which I found for $350.00. Somebody is alway thinking. For me it's always after the fact. I be interested in find out how it preforms. And put my device for sale."

Read my post above ... ?
"Gary, that tool does only one part of timing your early flathead distributor. It sets the initial (just at idle) advance to "factory spec" only. It does not have anything to do with point gap (dwell), etc."

It does not function the same as your K R Wilson fixture. Study it closer.
 
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