Thanks Mark.

Claim to fame is the car was used as an extra in the movie Diner with Micky Rourke, Steve Gootenburg, Paul Riser and Kevin Bacon.

MG! Thats a teapot carb.If you take the cap off the dist by unclipping the 2 clips and you can see springs visible on the breaker plate you have the correct advance from Dennis Carpenter.Dont worry about the diameter of the vacuum chamber.If it matches as far as mounting and your unit now has the thin arm comming out of it you have the correct one. Unscrew the 2 atteaching screws and pull the spring pin out of the one in there now.Carefull you dont lose the spring clip.

  

 3rd view

Claim to fame is the car was used as an extra in the movie Diner with Micky Rourke, Steve Gootenburg, Paul Riser and Kevin Bacon.

 2nd view 1955 Ford Fairlane 272V8 Holly

Claim to fame is the car was used as an extra in the movie Diner with Micky Rourke, Steve Gootenburg, Paul Riser and Kevin Bacon.

 Here's my carb -  1 view note the size of the vacum advance, much bigger than standard advance.

Claim to fame is the car was used as an extra in the movie Diner with Micky Rourke, Steve Gootenburg, Paul Riser and Kevin Bacon.

The other way to determine Loadomatic is: are there springs visible on TOP of the breaker plate when you take off the cap?

  

Mark is right in that the original Load-O-Matic distributor is incompatible with the ’57 and up carburetors.  Are the breaker points in the distributor straight or curved?  Straight points would be the original Load-O-Matic distributor while a set of curved points would be a ’57 and up distributor.

 

If you can post a picture of the carb or look for some kind of identifying number on the carb (on the choke housing on the later carbs), it may be easier to put you on the right track.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

MG! We need to identify which style carb you have.Look at Ebay items 140450843538 and 150490572301.Which one looks like your carb?They use diferent distributors depending on what carb you have.Dont buy another advance until you look at these carbs.

  

Guys I'm mechanically challanged and I don't know what a teapot carb looks like, but I contacted the guy I bought the car from and he bought the carb new in the late 80's, it is a single vacum. Carpenter has one I purchased that is aprt# FAB-12370-A but it is much smaller than the one that is now on the car.

The one Mark suggested looks just like the one I bought from Carpenter and if so I will try to buy this one and return carpenters.

Appreciate everybody's input.

Claim to fame is the car was used as an extra in the movie Diner with Micky Rourke, Steve Gootenburg, Paul Riser and Kevin Bacon.

Hello MG! I think the unit you are looking for is Ebay item #130430055549.Thats the single diaphragm unit used with the Loadomatic distributor.