I ordered a 54-.. y block dist. that i will put on my lincoln with a 53 lincoln y block , i heard the dist. will fit without a problem just the geardrive is diffrent , anyone of you guys know what i have to change ??
I've only built one lincoln y-block and no ford y-blocks, but when I built the 56 Lincoln I did a bit of research and I thought the distributors were interchangeable completely. What's supposed to be different about the gear, different material maybe?
A ford Y block drops in unaltered into a Lincoln Y block. I used a later 292 dizzy on my 56 Premiere a few years back.
I believe the Lincoln gear is a 15 tooth, and the ford a 14 tooth. Also there are 2 different types of oil pump drives, strait slot and hex. Good luck, Mike.
You are correct!!! I have a few of each here. Lincoln is 15 teeth Ford/Merc is 14. I beleive early 54 was a tang drive and after that was all hex drive. Matt
And on the 15-14 count...there is actual published American fiction hingeing on this! One of the "Gus Wilson" Model Garage stories involves stolen car parts and diagnosing a car crippled by this swap...this stupid detail has been stuck in my head since probably 1960!
hmmm...i've got that magneto that is supposedly NOS for a lincoln y-block. now i gotta go home and count the teeth. Of course, i got it from a guy in kentucky so it's probably got a few less teeth than it's supposed to anyway... just kidding kentucky guys. i'm from Indiana. you're all i've got.
I just checked my lincoln Vertex and it is a 15 tooth unit. So there is a difference. These guys know their stuff man.
Wow wait a sec, so even the later 368 has a difference? It dropped literally right in! It was a '57 292 distributor into a '56 Lincoln Premiere. Learn something new every day!
well my friends of course it dos not fit have now a hex drive dist with the wrong gears on it, the gears would be a small thing to swap ,can i solve the problem if i switch to a later (55) oil pump?
go to www.yblocksforever.com somebody there will know everything there is to know. Only thing is it may take a couple of days for somebody to respond. Not like here .. but are y block experts there ...
Learn about Lincoln distributor cogs right here, direct from America's Greatest Mechanic: http://www.gus-stories.org/october23.htm So...that's the story. It's been stuck in my head since I was 10, apparently, and there it is online now...Hope Gus has internet access wherever he is now.
PS--looks like a blank page as it opens; scroll down a tad. There are two online sites with big collections of Gus classics dating back into the twenties. All are educational, and there are even several involving early hot rodding and racing.
Free classical education on auto mechanics: http://www.gus-stories.org/ http://www.arcpress.com/modelgarage/gus.htm http://www.brakecylinder.com/GusWilson/1950-59.htm
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