This is why you can't trust anyone to work on your car.

I bought my 71 torono GT from the original owner in 1990 with 83,000 miles.

No one had ever set the timing in those 19 years!

If you're familiar with the Cleavland engine design, there's a low spot in the casting around the dist. This allows water to pool there, esp with a shaker hood.

I broke the bakelite spring tower trying to change the points...

It literally took six men, an engine hoist, a welder and a drill eight hours to extract that distributor!!!!

We had to remove the hood, weld a used head bolt across the top of the shaft, attach the engine hoist, and I had to drill holes in the flange of the dist, being careful not to nick the block or guts.

Unbelievable.....but true.


Ask me about changing the water pump on a cleveland without a balancer puller.....2000 miles from home.