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Drop any of those little screws while the distributor is in the car and let the cursing commence. 1. Remove distributor cap. 2. If so equipped, disconnect vacuum line. 3. Remove wire from coil to side of distributor. 4. Remove screw on plate holding distributor to block. 5. Note location of rotor so you can put it back in the way you found it. 6. Pull distributor off. Install is reverse. When you drop the distributor back in there are two ways it will sit down. The correct way and 180° off, look at the rotor to see that you have it correct. If not raise the distributor up, rotate the shaft 180° and drop it back in. This procedure was written by Tod Finch from the post What is wrong with this distributor, currently on pg 2. Joe Lee

That big groove that runs around the vent cowl is where the gasket is supposed to be glued down to. Behind the gasket is a little gutter that runs around the cowl. At the front of the vent cowl behind the seal, is an wider area of the gutter about 1 inch wide and deep with a hole there. On the bottom side of the vent cowl in the front is where a drain hose attaches and drains the water out through the fire wall. In your second pic, you can see the wide area behind the big groove where the cowl forms the point and it looks like the hole may be covered with dirt or rusty debris. Scrape at it lightly and see. If you find the hole, you can try to vacuum or blow it thru. Then look below like in your 3rd pic and see if there is a hose coming from the front point of the cowl. If that Hole is plugged up and the seal is not glued down, Your car, during rains and washes, will take on water like the Titanic. Ask me how i know. Joe Lee

So. Charging problem was alternator didnt have a good ground. The continued no charging? well... In my long experience with learning about electricity, I have learned two things.... and several new swear words. 1) before you start messing with the electricals, Undo the ground battery cable. and 2) when you are all done messing things up and are ready to be done with it. TIGHTEN THE GROUND CABLE BACK DOWN!!!! God I'm such an idiot.

7 to 1 compression ratio. Atmospheric pressure is 14.7 PSI. Rounding up to 15 * 7 is 105 PSI.

I would try replacing the battery first. On the P15 the generator was going bad. The front bearing was shot and the windings looked like they had been really overheated. And I think the VR had been adjusted for an eight volt battery at one time. It was boiling the lead acid battery. So it was cheaper to go with a 6 volt positive ground alternator. No VR required now. Also went with 00 battery cables and an expensive 6 volt sealed battery. The car can sit for months and still turns over faster than it did with the lead acid battery. Not original and not cheep - but - no worries about the charging system now. At car shows I've never had anyone comment on the alternator - they do comment on the big cables. My what big cables you have?

even since as a wee lad I have had it stressed many time.....90% of automotive electrical is poor grounds....poor ole Lucas catches hang daily as he ends up in time not being properly grounded. Case in point is the MANY wooden dashes and daisy chain grounds....wood get moist, dried etc etc. wood shrinks, the ground get flakey and somewhere in the most unlikely place to get your hand and a wrench is the faulty connection. Now when the community gathers and elects to change the street you live on Tourette Drive, you still doing pretty well.

2, Your youth! and your hair stops growing out of your head in favor of your nose and ears. LOL

We've all Been There, Done That.

Hey Cooper, when you order parts for your distributor, you need to order by the distributor model number, not the year of the car. Same with the carburator and the generator. I hope the plate you ordered works, but if you ordered by the year of your car, be advised it may not work. Joe Lee

Yes they must be glued down I recently replaced this gasket on my Plymouth. I used 3M weather stripping cement in accordance with the directions on the tube. One piece of advice though is used two people to install that gasket and make sure you touch it down where you want it cuz once those two pieces meet you're not going to move them to .ake any adjustment

Load testers are not that expensive. I have one for work and yes it's a fancy expensive one with them at Harbor Freight for a reasonable cost actually the best load tester you can get is the starter

it could be a bad charger? I had that happen to my lawn mower battery. It was low I put my charger on it let it charge overnight still didn't work so I grabbed my other charger put it on in less than an hour it I had a running mower

Look out for where the grease fittings are. The wrong tie rod end can smash its grease fitting against the pitman arm. Go ahead, ask me how I know.

My car has an air distribution box below the cowl vent. The box has its on drain hose to the engine compartment. FrarmerJon's car does not. Must have been an option. The drain hoses have to be cleaned out occasionally, to get rid of seeds, leaves and twigs. And the cowl gasket has to be right. My car had rust on the radio housing, from past failures.

Love my 6v positive ground alternator from Bill Howard Enterprise.

If your alternator is putting out 7.2v, Then it sounds like you have a wire hooked up wrong. If you still have the Voltage Reg installed, is the alternator wire hooked up to the BAT terminal of the VR? IMHO for the Pos ground car I think you can hook the wire up the neg terminal of the battery for testing purposes. If the techno dohickey was not a load tester, your battery might be shot. Most tech battery testers are for 12v batteries and the ones that say 12v or 6v testers are not that good with 6v systems. Unless the store buys the rally expensive testers, they do not do a load test. The load tester puts a one hundred amp load to the battery for 10 seconds and if it stays in the green your good. But as soon as you throw that switch and it drops fast the battery will not have capacity to start a car. Joe Lee

Just because a battery has recently been replaced doesn't mean it's good or is a fresh battery. It should have a date code on it, either a letter and 2 numbers or 1 or 2 number/ two numbers, not the warranty punchout date. Troubleshooting is done by testing. You can test the battery while the starter is off being refurbished. Your battery status then becomes a fact instead of an "I don't think it's that".

Oil pressure relief valve ?

Hahaha so funny,, When I go to a show & shine meeting,, I blackout the ''Do not'' on the sign that said, ''do not touch' so peoples can enjoy it,,

Lol,

We did this very thing to an 11 year old boy named Abram at a car show. He asked many questions and hovered around our car for 20 minutes. He then left with his Father and Grandfather. about 1 hour later he was back. I tell you that smile on his face was priceless. I asked him if he wanted to sit in the Car. WOW! he loved it. then off he went to see the other attractions. About 4 hours later he came by again on his way out. He was the most polite young man and my thought was as Doug&Deb said, "A simple gesture can lead to a lifetime car enthusiast and that’s what our hobby needs."