Quote: Look down in the center top below the rotor and locate the clip. You'll see 2 vertical legs. Spread them a bit wider several times with your narrowest pair of needle nose pliers. You wont be able to expand them much. then grab either of the vertical legs and whip it around and up and out in the direction that expands the clip all in one motion. You'll need a thin brass washer of the right dimentions (Ace hardware has a good selection) and use it to reduce the axial play then set the clip back down in there & compress the 2 vertical legs. You dont have much room to compress them much but if some of the horizontle circle of the clip is under the nub it will hold it in place. Try compressing it a half dozen times till you make some progress.
Found the clip- it was hiding under the felt 'plug'. I got it apart now.
I think I see what happened that caused this too. The distributor was recurved as I found machining marks on the advance side of the drive shaft. And when they machined the surface facing the centrifugal weights it looks like they did a little grinding, which ground down the face that rests on the plastic spacer that goes over the shaft between the weights for the advance to rest on. In doing so they shortened the distance beween the point where it rests and the groove where the clip goes.
So I need a washer (and you said brass, I don't need a grade 5/8 washer?) to fit down under the clip goes, correct- To keep the advance shaft from riding up? Or would I need a washer to compensate for what had been ground off?
