sandman2234
Super Member
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2005
- Messages
- 5,839
- Location
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Tractor
- JD2555 and a few Allis Chalmers and now one Kubota
I took a friends Corvette into the shop when I was in Auto Mechanic's class. He had done everything he could think of to make it "not miss and run rough". We hooked it up to an analyzer and the dwell kept changing. Turned out the bushings in the distributor were worn, allowing the shaft to move during operation, thereby changing the dwell. Dropped a new distributor in, and it worked great. Tack drive gear went out on that new distributor after 7,000 miles and Accel wouldn't warranty it since they had quit making it 10 years earlier. I pressed them harder about it, and they finally agreed that it shouldn't have gone out sitting in the garage, and 7K miles shouldn't hurt it either, so they sent me a new distributor. Nothing wrong with the old dual point if you don't need tack drive unit on it.
David from jax
(that vette is now in my garage)
David from jax
(that vette is now in my garage)