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Title: Distributor Decode Help
Post by: Lakeview on November 23, 2023, 04:07:31 PM
Found this distributor in my garage can't find any information on what it's from. Any help would be appreciated.  C5AF-12127 BG. The BG is what I can?t determine.
Title: Re: Distributor Decode Help
Post by: jwc66k on November 23, 2023, 06:22:42 PM
Is there a date code marked under the "suspicious" Fprd Part number?
Jim
Title: Re: Distributor Decode Help
Post by: Lakeview on November 23, 2023, 08:17:47 PM
Yes it is 5LB
Title: Re: Distributor Decode Help
Post by: J_Speegle on November 23, 2023, 09:35:47 PM
Found this distributor in my garage can?t find any information on what it?s from. Any help would be appreciated.  C5AF-12127 BG. The BG is what I can?t determine.

Did you try and look it up in one of the MPC versions? At the start of that section there will be the identification numbers/letters listed an what they carried in stock when the MPC was written - Often a different distributor to reduce the need to stock the hundreds of different units going forward


By 1969 it had been replaced in the service line with C4AZ-12127-M


Looks like one of the applications was a full bodied 1966 Ford with a 352 cu engine 4V and automatic without Thermactor

Did not find another application in either a 68 or 69 MPC

Title: Re: Distributor Decode Help
Post by: Lakeview on November 23, 2023, 09:46:46 PM
It is a duel point Distributer
Title: Re: Distributor Decode Help
Post by: J_Speegle on November 23, 2023, 09:52:30 PM
It is a dual point Distributer

With a vacuum advance boss and hole in the housing?

Just as a note - Dual point conversion and point plates have been available since the 60's

Can you confirm that it is a big block distributor?
Title: Re: Distributor Decode Help
Post by: Lakeview on November 24, 2023, 11:57:15 PM
It is a big block with vacuum advance.
Title: Re: Distributor Decode Help
Post by: J_Speegle on November 25, 2023, 01:31:38 AM
It is a big block with vacuum advance.

That would match the 66 application mentioned above