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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Last friday I drove it about 12 miles to pick
up a few items at 4 places. Each time the car sat for 10 to 20 minutes. The
engine was warmed up . The last stop about a mile away on the way home when it
shifted into seecond gear if I just pushed te gas I got <FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT>a ping . It<FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT>was steady and loud
and stopped as I backed off . </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I just drove it today about 2 miles and on te
way home it did the same thing yet it does not always happen .</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> Does it sound like the mechanical
advance weights might be sticking ? </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> I would hear a slight ping once in a
while if I took off from a stop to get into traffic from side streets to main
streets . At most three very slight pings and not always. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> I checked the timing and it was 5
degrees BTDC per the Bentley and have the proper mark painted . It's also colder
now , well 67 F if that's cold .</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> I have another distributor that has no
wear that I cleaned and lubed and AH which came with the 73 engine it has no
wear and I replaced the worn fiber washers . I had it completely apart
.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> The way the ping is either there and
then not seems like mechanical advance weights are either binding or sticking. I
can't see them enough to tell . I know they can bind on the pivot pin or dried
out old lube </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> I guess the only way to know is pull it
and take a look and then use the AH distributor . </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> The idle does not go up when I come to
a stop and I'm not sure it would if a weight was not returning. I think it would
. I think all it would take is a weight that hangs up as I'm driving then it
some how frees up at idle . I can see the advance springs and they are
connected.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> The odd thing on the 72 Dist in the car now
the ground lead on the advance plate loops over the advance arm on the AH it
sits right where the pertronix base needs to sit . I spoke to pertronix and they
said it needs that ground . I either need to swap advance plates or remove one
end of the much shorter braided plate ground on the AH 73 dist and add an eyelet
to it to ground it on one of the pertronix two studs. Trouble with that is if I
need to install points if the pertronix fails I can't . </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Also the Vacuum advance does not work ,
hasn't since 2009 as far as I know. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I'd go with points yet lately most seem cheap
and no one other than on-line sells condensors and the two I have are at least
before 97 . I always had trouble with points lasting and don't feel an old
condensor can be trusted . </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> Any thought's ?
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