Yes, i'm bringing this up again but there is a twist this time.

I'm on the Fire dept. and we have been having problems with our "59 Ford tanker truck. It's powered by a 292 Y-block.

I'm really not sure why, but our resident mechanic can't get the distributor to stay together. One time I was driving to a fire scene and it just started popping and banging then died. The springs had came off the weights. Sometimes it runs good, other times it runs like crap.

Anyway, last night at our monthly meeting I pushed hard enough to fix up the old truck that they put me in charge of getting it fixed. Ya, they put a bodyman in charge . Half of the guys want me to get a reman distributor and from what I gather here at /6 forum that reman anything these days is just junk. So I pushed abit harder and converted a few people to go with an MSD ready to run electronic distributor (ya, I talked them from a $70.00 reman to a $420.00 billit distributor )
Am I doing the right thing here or could, should, would the reman work. We don't drive it more than a hundred miles a year but when we do need it it better work flawlessly.

Any opinions?? (No, I can't swap in a slant so don't suggest it )

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You are on the right track here.I haven't had a Yblock for geeez 35years and I'm blown away you can even get a fancy shmancy dizzy for the old girl. It's FD equip so yeah when you need it its got to run go for the good stuff. You might check in Hemmings I'll bet there are dizzy rebuilders with good reps around that live in this country or close by if you go rebuilt.Friend of mine just restorodded a 56 'Bird and I think his is stock dizzy,wait till I see him

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I'm really not sure this is the wisest way to go, no, from a cost-efficacy standpoint. It'd probably work OK, though MSD quality & reliability has been spotty (increasingly so lately since they're now making stuff in China, as it seems). If the distributor keeps falling apart, then it sounds like there are mechanical wear issues that make the present distributor unusable. In that case, probably better to get a replacement stock-type distributor and perhaps equip it with a Pertronix electronic ignition conversion. Remanufactured parts are generally junk, but of all the parts that can be remanufactured, distributors seem to give the least trouble — probably because the only "remanufacturing" that can possibly be done on them is to clean, check for irreparable damage/wear, and replace the bushings.

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