Oldsragger

This disturbutor follow a engine i pic up, but when i open it i see its a old ignition system, but the disturbutor looks very new and not used much.. Just want to sell it and woundering what it could be Worth? I guess ppl dont want this disturbutor style no more?

MDchanic

Used remanufactured Olds distributor.

I don't really know, but most of us probably have small piles of Olds distributors lying around somewhere, and I'd probably sell one for about $20 if I thought the buyer needed it.

Why not keep it in case you need it later, such as if your electronic ignition fails?

- Eric

oldcutlass

Its a remanufactured that looks like it was purchased not to long ago. If you purchasd one from a parts supplier they range fro around $50-100 US.

mrolds69

EVERYTHING depends on the number. As an Olds rebuilt dist, it's not worth much...as said...maybe 50.00. IF it's a rare number...it could be worth a LOT of $$$. It's probably not...but list the # on the dist here, I'll tell you what it fits. Number looks like 1112... It's where your thumb is in the 3rd pic. List the number + numbers after it 1C26 or whatever.

Oldsragger

Ok thanks, i will try to google the number and see if i can find out more., it just stand in the BBO disturbutor hole., im not sure,maybe the old owner have use it.

Well i have a new HEI disturbutor with coil in my part collection anyway that i have had maybe a year now if i would try to use that some day, so i dont need it, im allready been offered about 25$ ,lol, so i will wait until monday if i will have some more bids.. well i could always have parts like this in my new garage just for fun, but i need some cash these days.

1969w3155

Uh, why not take him up on his offer?

Octania

Rebuilt generic 1112xxx is what I see
worth something.

When I was re-doing a UHV and found a very worn shaft I was very happy to find among the pile of old used ones a donor with the same # / shape cam brazed atop, and a good unworn shaft. I was shooting for an exact right match.

Oldsragger

OK i will post the nr here later

Octania

Funny thing, in the pile of oh 20-30 distributors, it was the LAST ONE I looked at that had the right shaft, too!

cjsdad

Hopefully you stopped looking when you found the good one!

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Oldsragger

Here are the numbers

1112033 (not 88 that i could see) 2A17

Ok,so now, what these nr can tell you?

MDchanic

Actually, nothing, as this is a remanufactured distributor, which may, or may not, contain any of its original parts (aside from the case with the number on it).

We could tell you what that distributor USED to be, but that's about all.

- Eric

Mikes442

It's for a 1972 455 made 1972 January(A) 17th

Oldsragger

Aha, ok thanks. Will it work on other olds engine smaller than 455?

Mikes442

Yes. It can work on about anything. That number was when the distributor manufacturer was making them told how much the weights weighed and how much spring resistance was to be used for a final product.
As you seen those other numbers were the date it was made.

Oldsragger

I see, nice to know, Well i Will Just sell it then

MDchanic

You are mistakenly using the present tense here.



You are correctly using the past tense here.

I will repeat, so that OldsRagger makes no mistake, this is a remanufactured distributor.

The numbers stamped into the base are meaningless, except as a matter of curiosity.

Without the rebuilder's specifications, or a distributor machine, you have no idea what parts are on it, or what sort of settings they will deliver.

- Eric