My 1955 edition of "Motor's Auto Repair" lists the distributor for a 1951-55 Kaiser as "Delco-Remy 1110224." It makes no distinction between supercharged and non-supercharged cars.
I've got the 1956 edition and, same thing, Fid.
All 226 Kaisers from 51-5 without a supercharger used the 1110224 distributor. The 1110237 was used on the 54-5 S/C equipped cars. The difference is in the weights inside the distributor to handle the S/C under load. The benefit is negligible and for all intents and purposes, they are interchangeable.
Thanks Joe. I was "talking" with Terry Zeug about this one as well. I figured that the odds of me having a distributor from a completely different make of car on my Manhattan, and someone on eBay claiming he pulled the same number distributor off a S/C '54 being a coincidence, were pretty astronomical. So we figured that the 237 must be right for some of the cars. Mine is missing the S/C so I hope the difference in the advance characteristics aren't too far off. They might have backed off on the advance a bit with the S/C version to prevent engine knock on cheap gas.
Now, I have to "fix" the fact that the previous owner must have worked on the car and put the distributor back with the vacuum advance facing the air cleaner. Which wasn't a problem until I bought an oil bath cleaner for a '54 Special - to replace a little rat-rod chrome one - and found it won't fit because of the advance. It's what you might call an "interference fit".
I'm hoping that all I have to do is take the cap off, detach the vacuum line, and rotate the base 180 degrees. Then put the cap back on, reposition the plug wires to the correct order and set the timing.
BTW, is the condenser normally mounted on the OUTSIDE of the distributor?
(Mine is. First time I've seen it like that.)
