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dopegod69

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Will a distributer from mercury thunderbolt 50 work in a mercury thunderbolt 85
 

Chris1956

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A distributor from an inline 6 will work on your 4 cylinder IL, if you change the distributor cap, and they are the same vintage. 1974 IL4s were the last year of the distributor models. The first 1/2 of 1979 were the last of the IL6 distributor ignitions.

I am not sure the first year the ignitions went to battery cdi distributor ignitions, however. You could match the switchbox part numbers to find out, I would think.
 

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You also need to change the distributor timing disk from 6 "windows" to 4 "windows".
 
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