Spring in the distrib drive, Needed? Options

[jeffdon]

Have a feeling I did not install a spring between the Distrib, and the Distrib Pinion gear/drive. Do not see it in the Raby video, but its in the factory parts schematic. I am running an 050 (i think, its not an 009) mech. adv. distrib. Do I need to put the spring in?

[realred914]

yeah index it right so as to not screw up timing setting if some one dont know what is going on. just dont drop anything. so you assembled this motor using a video from raby??? note to use a book next time, I dont see how one can follow a video well enough to assemble an engine, a video may be of some help, but you realy need a book and still photos to help you along specialy if first time. no substitute for a piece of paper in a book that you can write notes on sand reread easy.. harder to miss stuff when you can go back and re-read it and cross check with other pages / diagrams. etc.... we are less likely to do that with a video. so use a video as a supliment not as teh sole source of building a motor info.

the haynes book has a decnt explanation of indexing the distributor drive gear, follow that and you should be ok. in the proceedure