Matt,
I had a lot of similar problems shortly after I got my '70 1600. Skipping,
hesitation, stumbling, even complete cutout. I traced it all to the
distributor. Much of it due to the breaker plate under the points. It was
really screwed up, and jumped the timing all over the place. Dropping in a
new distributor made her a brand new gal, and she's run like a champ since.
Getting a new distributor will guarantee that all components are in sync.
If you replace components in the distributor piece-meal, you may still have
problems due to faulty items you didn't swap. For instance, on mine, the
weight springs were bad (one broken), and the shaft was messed up with too
much vertical movement. As well as a bad breaker plate and bad points.
Fred - So.SF
SFBADROC
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>Subject: hesitation on acceleration fixed?
>Author: "Matt Peterson" <pete_303@hotmail.com>
>Date: 8/30/99 10:03 PM
>
>Hi and thanks for the advice on my problem. While I was driving back from
>work tonight my car was stumbling almost like it wasn't firing in one of
>the cylinders when all of a sudden I got this boost of power and my car
>started to run fine again. The rest of the way home it ran fine. So it
>seems to have fixed itself for now. I checked the fuel filter and that is
>fine. I also replaced the rotor and spark plugs earlier this year. I
>think it is time to replace the cap, condenser, and points. Any other
>ideas. It really seems like a firing problem to me. Oh, also it would
>only do this under load while driving. When I reved it up with the clutch
>disengaged there was no skipping or hesitation that I could notice.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Matt Peterson
>'68 1600
>Zimmerman, Mn
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