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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