distributer

I have a ski nautique with a ford commander 351 made 1978
My distributor is broke.
Can any body tell me what to do best?
replace with original er change for something else?

It looks like it is burned through corrosion.

it short circuit ? I don't know the English word

I gave it to a repair shop.
He told me the inside (not the cap or rotator) short circuit and burned?
Also last year the ampere meter came out to mutch and after 5 minutes the main power switch came out.
in Holland there arent to many specialist so i do not trust people working on it to much.
I will ask him tomorrow what burned and make a picture.
I know there is a lot of corrosion inside, because i have the boat hole summer in the water (and it rains a lot in Holland).
Also I tested it in the boat and it short circuit.

well It sounds like the points shorted out. No big deal just replace them and the condenser and make sure that it didn't arc weld the mechanical advance plates together. Don't understand what your trying to explain about the amp gauge and ignition switch. It didn't rain to much the last week of July my girl friend's mom got a little sick from the heat when they where there visting their family for two weeks. She said it was the worst it had ever been and was glad their cousin had AC.

Hmmm. Sure seems like your alternator is not being regulated properly and outputing more than 14.5 volts or so. Unless you find the route cause of the failure, I think you will just ruin a good electronic ignition module in short order.

Agreed. Again! What are we going to do? The next thing that might happen is that the battery will explode

That doesn't look that bad. You need to remove the two screws and lift off that top plate and inspect the mechanical advance and make sure it moves freely and isn't rusted up. You should be able to hold the dist shaft and rotate the advance plate and have it snap back into position, inspect the springs as well one should be loose and the other tighter and look a little different if they look the same then they should have the same tension as well. other case is fine just different advance curves.

Where are you getting the dist from? I know shipping is higher put not 200-300 more. If it's taxes then maybe you could send the cash to one of us and have us buy it then ship it to you to get around that. Another option is getting the conversion kit to replace the points provided the mechanical advance is working fine. Can you get a new cap and rotor in Holland for dist you have? what about plug wires?

neither don't waiste your money on a points style dist get a new electronic version. A mallory YLM-554-DV or a YLU-554-DV. going back to a points dist is only going to give you head acks all of the the time and I doubt you have a dwell meter to set it correctly.

you need a reverse rotation or RH dist provided the engine as not been changed look at the gear and compare it to the other post showing the gears direction for LH and RH in the genreal forums thread

summit racing has the dist for a little over 200 bucks.

I have put photo's of the labels from the engine on the web.

http://www.westerengh.com/ski/tag.html

Can you see if this is a left or a right.

And if i have the right distributor?

Grim, it is so great to have you on this forum. These guys can really help! Welcome.

Jeg's is always a little cheaper. I would also look at the Pertronix brand. They offer everything you need with very good tech support at usually a lower price.

no need to post twice and jeg's is fine as long as they don't have to order a marine unit that isn't on their shelf then your screwed, Summit racing has no issue with marine parts and actually list them in there catologs, something Jegs doesn't do.

actually i got it free so you can have it for free,just work out the shipping details and send the info to darrin2078@verizon.net