It’s been about 2 years since I started the refurbishment of my 1968 L79.

I addressed every issue, repaired or replaced any item that was in disrepair, not functioning, or broken. I decided to take on a good road trip, 200 miles round trip to see what shook out.

The first half was to a buddies home who had a mechanic shop with his older brother since 1969 till recently. Now retired I spent several hours talking and riding around in his neighborhood.
He asked me about a noise he could hear in the distributor and a slight vibration at idle. He asked me to pinch the vacuum advance hose. The slight vibration and noise went away after pinching the hose off. When I was getting ready to head home later he offered me a distributor he had had on hand from a 1965 Corvette he had sold a few years back. I’m pretty sure This was his way of telling me, this car needs a distributor.
I told him I had planned on buying a new electronic distributor and if I breakdown on the way home, Hagerty would come to rescue me.
On my way home the car did develope a vibration at 75-80 MPH. The shocks are older Sears shocks with surface rust so they appear to be the simplest weak link for the vibration.

Purchased the TSP ready to run distributor, HEI small female cap so I could use my existing plug wires.
Checked the CF before making the purchase, I didn’t see any bad reviews, but I did read a lot of reference to made in China. The price was right, and to be worth the risk.
This distributor installed nice 😊 with no problems or issues. I had a 1111069 in the car, it was definitely tired. The new distributor was super easy to tune. I also purchased new ACDelco Chinese shocks. I
will install them next then do another test ride.






The new distributor is slightly larger, I had to massage the ignition shield, it’s tight on the new vacuum advance canister. The lid goes on but it’s snug with my plug wires.