I have a Chevy SBC Delco Remy tach drive distributor that I want to identify. It is a cast iron body, and non-vacumn advance... Metal band says: “1111134 DELCO REMY 5 J 7” Anybody have a link for me? Thanx
for some reason i can not find that number on anything i have , maybe by bringing this back up someone else can. delco remy used a date code that started with the last digit of the year first , then a letter month code ...by that 5 J 7 would mean October 1965 i believe.
How 'bout Sept 7th, 1965 (They don't use the "I" in the date code) That would be the assembly date for the distributor. The 'tag' p/n could be a service replacement number. The one you listed doesn't show up in any Corvette docs I have (and they do show '65 - '66 production)
While I have seen several sources claim that "I" was not used in date codes, I've also seen both intake manifolds and cylinder heads that had codes starting with "I".
Those tach drive distributors are pretty rare, so it's worth a lot to the right people. That seems weird that it's a non vacuum advance one though.
Thank you all. This is about what I thought it might be. As to the no vacumn advance, it was probably removed as a modification. The distributor came (running) in my 1936 Chevy PU with 327, 2 WCFB carbs, 30-30 cam, Muncie 4-spd, '57 Pontiac rear end, that I bought in 1969. I did have some info that the distributor had been recurved in a machine. I am thinking about moving the distributor..... .