Outsider
Well-Known Member
One of the reasons I bought it besides it was decent appearing, was that it was a good runner with good, smooth power throughout. However, after I took possession, the more I drove it, the more I wondered if something wasn't quite right, as despite it being a factory exhaust manifold car with a magnum like cam, it seemed the power really didn't seem to come on until after 4k and then it wanted to go to the moon, which I was not interested in, since I didn't want to scatter it.
I decided to try some checks and tune exercises, including lighter dist springs to bring the advance in earlier and that helped some, but was not enough. So some time later one day after a couple hour drive and the near home requisite putting it through its paces, I hurt something as it lost some power and was making a metallic tinking noise. Got it home and started doing some checks. Pulled the modified distrib since it suspect since I had touched it, but it looked ok. However, while checking I noticed that when I was turning the crank with a socket and breaker bar the distrib was not moving in sync.
I started pulling it apart and this is what I found.
