Tractor Hauler tick fixed

Royse · Apr 4, 2014

Thanks for all the advice guys, I fixed the tick today almost by
accident. I was tinkering with some other stuff I wanted to fix,
like the new master cylinder, and decided to change the plugs.
They were loose. Took several out with my fingers.
New plugs, in tight, no tick. Here another video.
Engine is running quite a bit faster in this one, it wasn't as warm,
but the tick is gone even after it settles down.

While I'm thinking about it, anyone recognize this one piece cap
on the distributor? Almost looks like an old Dodge cap, except it
screws down instead of clipping down. Not like the two piece caps
I've seen before on these engines with studs for the plug wires.

GordoSD · Apr 4, 2014

Time to change wires too. Esp the coil wire.

Royse · Apr 4, 2014

(quoted from post at 22:12:15 04/04/14) Time to change wires too. Esp the coil wire.

That's the problem Gordo, standard Ford wires and cap don't fit.
Doesn't look aftermarket to me, but it doesn't match original either.

GordoSD · Apr 4, 2014

Try looking at sets a few years older and a few years newer than your truck.
Why not buy a new cap?

oldtanker · Apr 4, 2014

Looks like an older Ford cap to me.

Rick

Royse · Apr 4, 2014

We looked all the way back to 1969 and up to '84.
The cap is all together different. The cap that is called
for is a two piece and doesn't fit this distributor.
Nothing wrong with this cap that I know of, so I could buy
wires for a 225 slant 6 Dodge and be done with it for now.
I just wondered if anyone knew what this one was on a 300.
This is a 1979 truck with EI distributor and it all works well.
I was just going to give it a tune up with new wires/cap/rotor.
You know, fix it until it's broke!

Steve@Advance · Apr 4, 2014

That is strange, never seen a Ford with a screw
down cap. That's Delco design.

Where did the truck come from? Seen weird stuff
like that from Mexico and Central America.

jennifer408 · Apr 4, 2014

(quoted from post at 19:16:10 04/04/14)

(quoted from post at 22:12:15 04/04/14) Time to change wires too. Esp the coil wire.

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That's the problem Gordo, standard Ford wires and cap don't fit.
Doesn't look aftermarket to me, but it doesn't match original either.

we had a hard time finding wires for our trencher and ended up at napa they had to order them and we had to pay out the yeng yang but we got em. ps i took the dist cap and coil after the second failure to insure the correct connectors. salesman just ain't what they used to be.

neverfear · Apr 5, 2014

I was thinking it's maybe from a marine or industrial application. If it's a Ford part it should have a p/n cast into the base somewhere then a cap could be found from that. My .02 cents.

Dr. Walt · Apr 5, 2014

Royse:

Are you sure that that's even the proper distributor
for that year & make of truck?

Doc

CharlieNJ · Apr 5, 2014

That is the same style cap that's on my 1989 F-150 with 4.9. Which is an EFI truck. Someone must have changed it

hd6gtom · Apr 5, 2014

looks to me like a typical ford dist. Supposed to be used in HD operations. I've seen lots of them over the years. They screw down, supposed to be better at keeping the water out. I got mine at NAPA in Indianola Iowa.

Pops1532 · Apr 5, 2014

That's the replacement for a 2 piece cap. IIRC the bottom of the 2pc style screwed down and the upper used the clips. The 2 pc spread the terminals out farther so it used a different rotor too.

RN · Apr 5, 2014

Get the part number if any off the cap, might be able to order it from specialty outfit, whatever. Now for the fun part- go to a hot rod store and check their catalogs or a Niehoff catalog, Jeep and IHC truck parts catalogs also. Lots of different interchanges over the years with Jeep and IHC using otherwise odd Delcos mixed with Motorcraft(Ford) designs including the scewdown distributor caps on what was a snap clip OEM. Niehoff had multi use interchanges with the best features of one design combined with another's basic design especially if patent expired- used to cross reference bits and pieces when working for Jeep dealer in early 1970s- out of warrantee replacement of Motorcraft distributor with Delcso was normal when the then new high energy Magna Pulse Motorcrafts failed- this was the moisture in wire loom connector with no silicone grease problem. IHC industrial, rough service pattern bits on Ford distributor design or a Excel hot rod distributor replacement wouldn't be unusual. RN

Royse · Apr 5, 2014

Thanks everyone, I may have done it the hard way, but I found it.
I Googled 6 cylinder distributor caps and looked at the pictures until
I found one that looked like it, then went to the parts store and matched it up.
Turns out a 1979 Jeep 4.2L cap and rotor are an exact replacement.
I don't know if Jeep used some Ford parts or if someone put a
Jeep distributor in this thing, but at least I got it figured out.
Here are a couple of pictures and a short video of it running on the new one.

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