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<DIV>In a message dated 12/4/2017 8:10:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
catnine09@dslextreme.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 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 a ping . Itwas steady and loud and stopped as I backed off
. <BR><BR>I just drove it today about 2 miles and on te way home it did the
same thing yet it does not always happen .<BR><BR>Does it sound like the
mechanical advance weights might be sticking ? <BR><BR>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.
<BR><BR>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
.<BR><BR>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 .<BR><BR>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 <BR><BR>I guess the only way to know is pull it and
take a look and then use the AH distributor . <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 .
<BR><BR>Also the Vacuum advance does not work , hasn't since 2009 as far as I
know. <BR><BR>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 . <BR><BR>Any thought's ? </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>Have you tried better fuel? Maybe set up a grade or 2?<BR>
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