Re: Vac advance?

["Jeff Tarquinio" <tark_terra@domain.elided>]

Joel,
No, I'm not sure the timing is ok...but I've been leaning towards that direction. The question is, what exactly caused it to screw up?  How did you skip a tooth, in the cam/crank gear or the distributor gear?
Changed the plugs in NJ when it first started giving me big trouble, Dan and I agreed the old ones didn't look too bad.
No gold box......points.
  I didn't nuetral drop for the sake of impressing Mandera, I did it 'cause i wanted to get home and sleep in my nice warm bed, it had been rainy and cold all day...it would stall any other way, and possibly not start again.
It would idle, under any load it would stall at idle, hence the Nuetral option.  At 2500 and up, it ran perfect.  Good mileage, good OP, good temp.
---
Layda,
Tark
'77 Terra 345/T19/D20
   Survivor of '98 Scout Nationals
'80 Scout II 345/TF727/single speed tc
   Clean machine



On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:11 -0   jmbrodsky wrote:
>
>     Tark,
>     
>        Are you sure the timing is good?  Every time I have 
>     experienced your symptoms, it's been retarded timing, and I 
>     needed to keep the revs up to get the mech advance to take up the 
>     slack.  You just may have slipped a tooth on the timing.  At 
>     least that is what mine did, before it took a crap on the 
>     highway.  Low probability though.  Check the plugs too.  Fouled 
>     plugs can ruin your day.  Everything else in the truck is ok?  
>     Maybe you have a bad gold-box?  Sounds weird, but I would avoid 
>     neutral drops at all costs.
>     
>        Dirty carb could always do it.  When you get off the idle 
>     circuit it runs ok?  Sounds like my T'all TQuad on a cold 
>     morning.  I have to pump like a mad man to get it to accelerate 
>     without dying.
>     
>
>     -Joel Brodsky



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