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Re: My Pinto...er....Bobcat....err....sumffin....lol
« Reply #150 on: July 06, 2016, 11:29:56 PM »
Well......well .........well. .............f iddlesticks. I found out that the stock Duraspark distributor will not fit because of the idler pulley directly in front of where the vacuum advance canister would fit. So, I will have to use one without vacuum advance. No biggie, as it was probably a moot point anyway since the camshaft is fairly stout. Probably wouldn't have a lot of part throttle vacuum anyway. I will just get a performance magnetic pickup style distributor with no vacuum advance and a black cap and use the Duraspark connectors to wire it to my fake Duraspark box. lol

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« Reply #151 on: July 14, 2016, 10:13:44 PM »
Got the ignition all sorted out and wired up. All that's left is to hook an ignition hot wore to the coil positive and the tach signal to the coil negative when I install it in the car. Came out real nice.

Now I am working on the steering shaft. I removed it, cut the rag joint end off and an dressing it down to 3/4 double d so it will fit in the u joint. Pictures to come in a bit.

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« Reply #152 on: July 21, 2016, 01:28:22 PM »
Been really hot here so I am going slow. Manual steering conversion completed on RobKat.

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Re: My Pinto...er....Bobcat....err....sumffin....lol
« Reply #153 on: July 22, 2016, 06:45:10 AM »
When turned stop to stop, is there any wobble at all ? Curious. Not sure if I'll try this on the next 72 , or leave the cable.
Seems to me I read in the NHRA regs a cable was not allowed ?

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Re: My Pinto...er....Bobcat....err....sumffin....lol
« Reply #154 on: July 22, 2016, 12:49:27 PM »
None that I can see. I guess if I put a dial indicator on it I might pick some up, but I am not that picky. Not like it can go anywhere.