Hi all you Y-block lovers!

I'm new to this forum from Athens, Greece with my '54 Mercury Monterey driver. It has the original 239 with low mileage, manual with Overdrive, 6volt positive ground, the 2140 Teapot and, the ' temperamental' Load-O-Matic..

Before learning that I need a SUN machine, way back I tried to adjust the spring weights and really messed it up. I sent it to a SUN shop in England but it came back no good.

Here are my novice questions for your kind expert consideration:

1. Is there a way I can manually tune the springs without the SUN machine?

2. Are there reliable Load-O-Matic tuners in the states I can send it for proper tuning?

3. Should I simply forget about it and go for a point unit with centrifugal weights like the ones used in the later Y-Block engines? Frankly I would like to keep the Teapot it as buy now I have learned it well and I could easily do Ted 's vacuum Teapot conversion I read about in this forum.

4. I am also open fo an HEI distributor, that looks like my original and can fit the shaft length and tang coupling to the oil pump. However there is a question with the wiring of my overdrive's kick down switch wiring to coil, because I tried the Pertronix unit it way back and it did not work.

That's it, thank you all in advance
Aris

Aris....If your engine is truly "original" it should be a 256 Y-Block not a 239.  The code on the block is "EBU" for the 1954 Ford 239 and "EBY" for the 1954 Mercury 256.  Both used the Load-O-Matic distributor.

Long ways away, probably not many y block parts laying around. But welcome to the site. Sorry I’ve got no advice on your question.

miker
55 bird, 32 cabrio F code
Kent, WA
Tucson, AZ