Spent the afternoon killing my battery trying to get this @#$% van started. Replaced distributor with a new rebuilt dizzy from Rock-auto, and a set of hot-spark pointless points (that's for sure). Turns out the electronic points are randomly misfiring at speed, getting worse until van dies. Swap them with stock points and it still runs like crap although not misfiring (can tell by timing light). Just can't get the timing set right. Yanked the new dizzy and the shaft seems misaligned - when I look at the notch for the rotor and compare it to the engagement pawls at the bottom of the shaft, the new dizzy is different by about 25 degrees. I can't set timing right because the vacuum advance can hits the cold start valve. WTF? Am I expected to change the relationship between the camshaft and distributor or this a screw up by the rebuilder? Nathaniel |
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