Re: distributor ID

[jlandry@domain.elided (John A. Landry)]

The black helicopters hovering over the house recorded <hofs@domain.elided>
whispering:

>>I have a 345 that was swapped into a 1980 scout with a 196. It doesn't
>>have a gold box, but it is much taller that my 304 with points. It has
>>the outee pointed conductors. It doesn't appear to have dual points. I
>>think the engine came from an early 70's IH bus or truck. What do I
>>have? Will it hook up to the msd box?
>
>First off, does it have any points? In my limited experience with a 
>variety of distributors, only the Prestolite had outees on the cap, but 
>it didn't have points. John L. just taught me that in the Prestolite's 
>case, the equivalent of the gold box is in the distributor, and it will 
>hook up to the MSD, OK.

To the best of my knowledge, just like Holley, Prestolite supplied both
breaker-point and the internal electronic type distributors to IH.
Externally they basically both look the same.

Regards,

John
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