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Anthony Pallett

Mallory distributor ID

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I picked up an old Mallory dual point distributor I was told it fits a Packard any one want to help ID this thing, Mallory doesn't have a listing for it.

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Posted on: 2014/2/3 2:54

Dan Phenicie

Re: Mallory distributor ID

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packard1984 wrote:
I picked up an old Mallory dual point distributor I was told it fits a Packard any one want to help ID this thing, Mallory doesn't have a listing for it.

info for Model ZC Mallory

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Your type 199D fits Packard 8 1949-52, see attached

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Posted on: 2014/2/3 4:14

Dan

Anthony Pallett

Re: Mallory distributor ID

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Thanks Dan Ill give them a call tomorrow. Do you know the likeliness of this being a Packard distributor? The weather has been to bad to pull the one off my spare L8 and I have no idea what the one for the V8 looks like

Posted on: 2014/2/3 4:35

Anthony Pallett

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Scratch that, the chard didn't show up at first. so going by the numbers this one fits a 49-52 L8 thanks so much. Luckily I have a 52 :D. What changed after 52 to where the distributor would not fit the 53-54 L8s?

Posted on: 2014/2/3 4:38

Anthony Pallett

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Next question is are reproduction parts available for it? Such as the distributor cap.

Posted on: 2014/2/3 4:48

R H

Re: Mallory distributor ID

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pack 84, contact mallory, but they don't have parts, as i have one for a 56, the cap maybe,,the round capacitor nope,,,points maybe,,

Posted on: 2014/2/3 8:47

Riki

Owen_Dyneto

Re: Mallory distributor ID

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What am I missing here? I don't see how that distributor could be driven by the Packard engine with the female hex drive at the distributor shaft end. Perhaps an adapter was a required part of the setup that engaged the blade drive in the Packard engine and terminated in a male hex drive?

Posted on: 2014/2/3 9:17

Anthony Pallett

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I was wondering the same thing. I thought the Packards used a blade style oil pump drive but I didn't have one in front of me. It is not a complete system though, of one I am missing the drive gear and who knows what else.

Posted on: 2014/2/3 15:33

Owen_Dyneto

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The drive gear is on the oil pump, driven by a gear on the camshaft. Yes, they had a blade-type drive for the distributor, fitted into the oil pump gear head.

Posted on: 2014/2/3 15:37

Anthony Pallett

Re: Mallory distributor ID

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Thanks for the info Owen. Do you have a guess as to why they have several different models during the 49-52 model years like some cover 49-50 others 49-52 and the last one is only 53-54? did Packard use different oil pumps or drive gears?

Posted on: 2014/2/4 13:11

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