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Now reinstall distributor gear with steel spring pin. See that timing mark in gear is in correct position compared to rotor.

I like to use a hammer and a punch tool for this.

Now it is time to check your distributor shaft. See that there are no visible scratches in bearing or seal area. If there are, you may want to sand your distributor shaft before pressing a bearing into shaft. Remember also to lubricate shaft before pressing bearing into shaft in a bearing press. Rem...

You start reassembly by putting brand new inner and outer oil seals into distributor. A small coin like Euro five cents is suitable tool in a bearing press to install oil seal. Remember to install spring towards distributor rotor.

Latest now it is time to go shopping. Buy if you can a new bearing, oil seal, distributor pin, vacuum advance & ignition coil because it is time to clean remaining parts and to dream of reassembly. As I mentioned before, there are three models of vacuum advance units. They all fit but you may ne...

After pressing or hammering shaft out of housing you have basically everything apart excluding distributor bearing and inner oil seal. Sometimes bearing is attached to shaft and sometimes to housing after pulling the distributor shaft apart from distributor housing. Therefore removal of bearing can ...

After removing succesfully the distributor gear it is time to pull off shaft from distributor housing. You can do this easily in a workbench by applying force to distributor shaft end next to gear. You can also be creative and use a hammer and a beverage case.

Now starts the harder part, which requires bearing removal tools, drill and a bearing press. First you need a power drill to remove original pin holding distributor gear. Mark carefully gear position compared to rotor position if you want to reuse these marks for resetting distributor correctly befo...

Then you can continue rebuild by removing both distributor pickup coil and vacuum advance unit. They are attached into distributor housing by three screws. First you can start by unscrewing vacuum advance screw. After detattaching this screw you may want to try spin gently vacuum advance unit. Then ...

Then you can move on to remove ignition coil module and distributor wires. Ignition module can also break down so depending your size of wallet, you may want to replace this also but that is not necessary. It is fairly easy to remove because it is held in place by five screws. Three of them are atta...

Then you want to remove reluctor attached to the shaft of the distributor. You can remove it carefully with flat screwdrivers. But them between reluctor and pickup coil assembly and twist. Please note that reluctor is held on place by small shaft key. Don't lose it or you may need to make one during...

Next thing to remove is ignition coil. It is held by two size 7 nuts and by four screws. Remove them and mark the exact order of wires before removing the ignition coil. Replacing the whole ignition coil during distributor rebuild is highly preferred since these distributors are getting close to the...

Then you start rebuild by removing rotor. This is the most simple thing to do just pull it off. Then you may have some additional covers above coil and ignition coil module. They are very easy to deattach because they are attached to distributor without any screws. Pull them off by stretching every ...

After removing previously mentioned four bolts, deattach vacuum advance hoses. Mark carefully each hose and port so you won't mix them up when reinstalling distributor. There are three types of vacuum advances. If you are creative enough, you can swap into another version but more to this later. Pul...

You can start the procedure either with a distributor attached into the car or not. If the distributor is attached into the car, you may want to first put engine pulley mark in to 0. Then you mark current position of distributor adjustment screw in distributor housing. The screw has originally size ...

Hi everyone, I promised to make this thread on the facebook page. I have rebuilt now several distributors and now it is time to tell how it's done since rebuilt distributors are getting harder and harder to find. First question is why you would ever need to rebuild one. After asking this from myself...