I have a distributor timing device for setting up flathead distributors made by Industrial Service Engineers Pty Ltd ,Braybrook, Victoria, Aust. and need a copy of the instructions on how to use it.Can any one help?:
can't help, but have you tried googling them and or just yellow or white pages? they may still be in existence? will be honest, I have never heard of them associated with flatheads.
Post some pics and we can probably figgeritout right here. There are only two common flavors: Either the distributor can rotate, and point continuity shoud break as a line on disc or pin comes into alignment (KRW, The Canadian equivalent one) OR it will hold distributor in one position by immobilizing the drive tang, and that is the firing point. The ones that allow rotation can have additional lines that allow checking dwell and pohasing of the points.
Hi thanks for the replys, nothing on google, have a copy of last page of instructions. yes Bruce have almost worked it out.
Hi BRTALOR! If you can't get an answer here or elsewhere, call my old buddy Roy @ R&E Obsolete Auto Parts in Lapeer, Michigan U.S.A. @ 810-664-9319 any day of the week, including Sundays until about 4:30 P.M. Eastern standard time. If you can't call, or simply don't want the expense of the over-seas call, PM me, and I'll get the question to him, and PM you back. If you do call him, speak up!...he's a little hard of hearing. His wife Eldora may answer the phone. Good people. Ol' Roy is my Ford guru. He's almost 80 yrs. old, and has been hot rodding old Fords since before most of us were born. I bet a hundred bucks he'll know how to use your device. Tell him Rick sent you.
P.S. - Maybe it would be best that I take your picture of the instruction page to him. Let me know. - Rick
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