Distributor IAT 4101B

[p15-1948]

A salvage yard an hour south of me reopened sometime last summer after being closed for many years.  I went down last weekend to look, and maybe pick up a few things for my 49 Plymouth.  I found a 55 Savoy with a L6, I got the generator w/bracket, voltage regulator, six blade fan and shroud, AC glass bowl fuel filter, really nice battery tray, an IAT 4101B distributor, and a few small odds and ends.

 

I think the distributor IAT 4101B may be from a 54 reading some old posts here.  desoto1939 had a post from 2012 with a lot of information on this distributor number.  Tomorrow, I plan to pull the distributor out of my 49 and see what number it is. The IAT4101B I pulled from the 55 may have been rebuilt before ending up in the junk yard, it was really clean and shiny under the cap.

 

I think I can go back and forth, if needed, with either of these distributors in my 49?

 

Someone bought a really nice DeSoto the day I was at the yard, I think it was a 50. 

 

Thanks

 

Mike

[Plymouthy Adams]

I think the reopening may be a move for quick and easy money before calling in the crusher as yet another old car yard will be history as the family likely is cleaning the property for estate sale purposes.  Grab what you can if the prices are right.  ?

[p15-1948]

14 minutes ago, Plymouthy Adams said:

I think the reopening may be a move for quick and easy money before calling in the crusher as yet another old car yard will be history as the family likely is cleaning the property for estate sale purposes.  Grab what you can if the prices are right.  ?

 

The owner purchased it from the estate, as I understand it.  He is putting a lot of effort into organizing the yard by make and cutting down brush and trees.  I think he has sold a lot of complete cars.  I do understand what you're saying, seen it happen to many of my favorite honey holes. 

[Plymouthy Adams]

that is quite the reversal of the norm.....good on him....support your local wrecker is all I can say....

[FarmerJon]

I have an IAT distributor I rebuilt (and had vacuum can rebuilt) to swap into my '48 in place of the stock IAP distributor. The caps are different, so it is inconvenient to swap back and forth.

Maybe not a big deal if everything goes smoothly,  but I had condensers fight me, and had to get it back running before the end of a weekend, so switched back and forth a few times. If you want to go back and forth, compare the caps, it is much easier if you can leave it in place.