My timing setting keeps changing. It's at idle. I set it go to clamp it and its already changed. when I do camp it down I can sit there with the timing light and watch it move around upwards of 10 deg.
Real strange if I rest my hand on top of the secured distributor it moves, I rock the dist a little the timing chages some more.
If the base is clamped down and the timing is floating up and down it must be the springs right? There is no vacume advance. Points cap and rotor are brand new and the key is in the rotor.
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1954 M-37
Your dist has a wobble?
I once tried to use a o-ring gasket for the base of my dist that I got from VPW and it made it wobble so I went a found the correct cork flat gasket and that fixed it
OR.. Do you have the correct military dist & oil pump or are they civie units?, the military dist/oil pump have off set slots at the base ( see picture ) that fit into each other where the civie units have centered slots, if you mix them up you'll have a miss aligned dist that will wobble bady
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I might mention also that there are two clamp bolts, one on the distributor base and one to the block as you can see in the picture provided by another member. Make sure both are tight.
Regards Marti
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check the play on the distributor shaft and bushing.. Sounds like this could be worn out. There is a section in the manual on tolerances for this and how to repair it..
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MVPA#22218
1954 Canadian M37 W/W "Oliveoil"
1971 M816 "Yard Whore"
1952 Curtis Wright M44/M34 "Mo gas momma"
1952 M42 project "money pit"
1968 M109A2 "camper special"
1986 M1028,1984 M1028,1983 M1028,1985 M1009
The list go's on but that would be bragging.
"I don't think the United States needs super-patriots. We need patriotism honestly practiced by all of us"
Dwight Eisenhower
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"The right thing at the wrong time is no longer the right thing" Grandma Mattson
MVPA#22218
1954 Canadian M37 W/W "Oliveoil"
1971 M816 "Yard Whore"
1952 Curtis Wright M44/M34 "Mo gas momma"
1952 M42 project "money pit"
1968 M109A2 "camper special"
1986 M1028,1984 M1028,1983 M1028,1985 M1009
The list go's on but that would be bragging.
"I don't think the United States needs super-patriots. We need patriotism honestly practiced by all of us"
Dwight Eisenhower
I had that problem with mine turned out to be the bushings (shaft wobble), I took the dist apart, pulled the bushings and took the old bushings, shaft and housing to a machine shop and they made me a new set. warked like a champ afterward!
m-37 ign timing keeps moving
