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I the last 50 years of messing around with vehicles I've only seen one other distributor like this one: It has two sets of points, and requires two external coils. The first, was on a (Siata) Fiat 8V engine that I had rebuilt.  That engine was a disaster, and very poorly designed.   Can anyone identify what this is off of?  I suspect the same, in its design..

The main body in heavy cast iron, and its fairly large. Screw on wire terminals. Anyone have any idea what this fits?  IMG_20221025_180304130.jpg.932675a286f21229387b3d9e2a17f9f8.jpgIMG_20221025_180228449_BURST000_COVER_TOP.jpg.2adf6eaf4725cbec639e5787c68875b5.jpg

 

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1 hour ago, VW4X4 said:

Can anyone identify what this is off of?

This is a North-East 5033450 distributor. Original equipment on all 1933-34 8 cyl. Packards. Usually there‘s an ID tag on the distributor housing but I guess it is missing. Points, caps and rotors are hard to find. That‘s probably why someone modified and installed an Auto-Lite contact arm (just noticed that one of the contact arms is AL and not NE). Delco-Remy took over North-East around 1930. That‘s why cap and rotor were actually designed by Delco-Remy. Lincoln, Duesenberg and 1928 Packards used similar caps on DR distributors. But the cap on this NE distributor was exclusively made for the 1933-34 Packards.

 

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5 hours ago, E-116-YH said:

Here is an image of another Henney chassis that I found on the internet.

Judging from the distributor and generator/water pump assy it could be 1929-30 Pierce-Arrow….(?)

…..not only P/A used this type of cap (Delco-Remy) but as far as I know P/A was the only passenger car to use it….(Ed?).

 

…..just noticed the generator is missing…..and wasn’t the WP bolted to generator on P//A….(?)

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