Whoa !
Ron, you have one rare distributor. In accordance with Ford's alpha-numeric
numbering system we know that, for example, the prefix B7S-xxxx-x would
indicate a part for the 1957 Thunderbird, where "B" represents the decade
(1950s), "7" represents the year within the decade (seventh year or '57) and
"S" represents the car group(Thunderbird). Likewise "C7xx" represents the
year 1967, "D7xx" represents the year 1977 and so forth.
Extrapolating this numbering system with your distributor prefix we see you
have a distributor from the year 2175. I have no idea what application your
distributor (TF) is for. ...maybe a Transit of a Fargo. ...or even a
Delorean. You been hangin' around "Back to the Future" folk lately? Your
clock tower been struck by lightning lately? BTW, with the "C" suffix we do
know your 2175 distributor was the third product modification (more
power???)
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: " Ron Fraser" <rfraser@bluefrog.com>
To: "'Mountjoy'" <dsmtjoy@cox.net>; "'kevin beck'"
<kevinteresa.beck74@gmail.com>
Cc: "'tiger list'" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 6:13 AM
Subject: RE: [Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 3, Issue 266
I'm not sure if the distributor for the Tiger does not have a unique
number; I only have the one that came in my Tiger as reference.
Z5TF-12127-C; I thought for some time that this was a replacement
distributor because of the odd number. I then looked at the date code
under that number; 4MB, Dec 1964, 2nd week. The date code is correct for
the engine build date. I don't know if Ford used the Z5TF to indicate
export or not.
Ron Fraser
-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mountjoy
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:36 AM
To: kevin beck
Cc: tiger list
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 3, Issue 266
Kevin,
>From your prefix, C5OF, you may have a HiPo distributor. You need to
>look at
the suffix to positively ID it. Attached are some charts that may help.
Remember though, Tigers were not issued with HiPo motors and mechanical
advance distributors. They all had vacuum advance systems. All MK I and MK
Ia Tigers came originally with 260 CID motors and MK II Tigers with 289
motors.
Digging a little further, from Bob Mannel's book on the Mustang &Ford Small
Block V8 1962 - 1969, Appendix D (attached) shows only one "C5OF"
distributor, a C5OF-12127-E, and it's application is listed for the 289 HiPo
motor in the Fairlane, Torino, Comet/Cyclone, and Mustang. So it appears
you have a HiPo distributor. "Right" for your '65 MK I? That's up to you.
Original? No. A very cool piece of hardware? Definitely.
My MK I had a HiPo motor when I bought it way back when so I'm not sure what
the correct/original distributor was. I'm sure there are others on the list
who do.
Cheers,
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: kevin beck
To: Mountjoy
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 3, Issue 266
After reading e-mail had to see what # was on my dist. looked like C5OF
12127 is this right for my 65MK1? thanks
tony always nice to find parts . nice find
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