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Old Feb 22, 2007 | 10:35 AM
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I have a distributor that was on my car when it flooded. I am trying to choose between redoing it myself or just sending it to MSD. Anyone ever try this?
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Old Feb 22, 2007 | 01:24 PM
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send it to MSD, i've dealt with them alot, had a questionable distributor i bought off ebay, sent it to them they pretty much replaced everything except the aluminum shaft for $75 bucks well worth it. and if i had 10 bucks for every 6AL they've rebuilt for me i'd be rich!
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Originally Posted by coolerthanethan
send it to MSD, i've dealt with them alot, had a questionable distributor i bought off ebay, sent it to them they pretty much replaced everything except the aluminum shaft for $75 bucks well worth it. and if i had 10 bucks for every 6AL they've rebuilt for me i'd be rich!
what does this say about the 6AL?.... i'm on my 2nd one in 6 months... and i still wonder about it.........
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Old Feb 22, 2007 | 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by coolerthanethan
send it to MSD, i've dealt with them alot, had a questionable distributor i bought off ebay, sent it to them they pretty much replaced everything except the aluminum shaft for $75 bucks well worth it. and if i had 10 bucks for every 6AL they've rebuilt for me i'd be rich!
Cool I was not sure whay they would charge for rebuilds, but 75 dollars is not bad.
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Old Feb 22, 2007 | 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Sigforty
Cool I was not sure whay they would charge for rebuilds, but 75 dollars is not bad.
If you were to send a flood photo and a brief paragraph along w/ your distributor ... perhaps they'd apply some "Katrina Relief" ... who knows?
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Old Jun 28, 2011 | 08:53 PM
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I am bringing back an old thread so I can show the pictures of the rebuild work from MSD. I sent my distributor back looking pretty rough. They completely rebuild it and sent it back to me for $126. Not bad considering a new one is around $360.









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I'm lucky , I can take my msd dist to them myself. It's within driving distance.
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Old Jun 29, 2011 | 12:06 AM
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Thx for the follow up Sig. Its nice to know if mine ever wears out.

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For you guys running MSD's in your vettes - what model number are you using?
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