Topic: Distributor Decode Help

[Lakeview]

Found this distributor in my garage can't find any information on what it's from. Any help would be appreciated.  C5AF-12127 BG. The BG is what I can?t determine.

[jwc66k]

Is there a date code marked under the "suspicious" Fprd Part number?
Jim

[Lakeview]

Yes it is 5LB

[J_Speegle]

Found this distributor in my garage can?t find any information on what it?s from. Any help would be appreciated.  C5AF-12127 BG. The BG is what I can?t determine.

Did you try and look it up in one of the MPC versions? At the start of that section there will be the identification numbers/letters listed an what they carried in stock when the MPC was written - Often a different distributor to reduce the need to stock the hundreds of different units going forward


By 1969 it had been replaced in the service line with C4AZ-12127-M


Looks like one of the applications was a full bodied 1966 Ford with a 352 cu engine 4V and automatic without Thermactor

Did not find another application in either a 68 or 69 MPC

[Lakeview]

It is a duel point Distributer

[J_Speegle]

It is a dual point Distributer

With a vacuum advance boss and hole in the housing?

Just as a note - Dual point conversion and point plates have been available since the 60's

Can you confirm that it is a big block distributor?

[Lakeview]

It is a big block with vacuum advance.

[J_Speegle]

It is a big block with vacuum advance.

That would match the 66 application mentioned above