Thanks for all the insightful reply's! I had planned on spending Saturday
afternoon working out the miss problem but due to other constraints, I
didn't get started until 10PM. I went through the ignition system one piece
at a time to eliminate any problems. Even thought the Champion spark plugs
were new I replaced them with the recommended NGK plugs. The coil was
replaced with an Accel "Super Stock" coil. I tested all the wires again and
they checked out fine. I just happened to have a really low mileage 67 1600
distributor laying around (excellent example of the value and convenience of
owning more than one roadster! <g>). It needed cleaning badly. I
dissasembled it totally, freeing the weights, and installing my pertronics
unit rather than the original points. I simple modification had to be made
to hook up the vaccuum advance as the earlier style distributor had a
threaded fitting rather than a nipple. Now for the what I had been waiting
for...sigh!!...by this time it was 2am and with no muffler there was no way
I could coax myself to have to watch all the neighbors bedroom lights turn
on systematically! Next weekends not that far away, right!
One question that came to mind........on the distributor, there appears to
be two adjustments. I have always used the philips head screw adjustment to
set distibutor timing. What is the function of the small adjustment that
is located on the back of the distributor? Thanks in advance!
Nathan
> nruff wrote:
> >
> > Hey-
> >
> > I seem to have very little time to work on my project anymore but plan
on
> > traveling to my folks this weekend, spending Saturday afternoon and
evening
> > tackling a miss problem on my 69 2L. I'm 99.9% certain it's in the
> > ignition.
> >
> > This is what I have:
> > New Cap and Rotor
> > New Wires (Old Wires Did the Same Thing)
> > New Plugs
> > Pertronics (no points)
> > Old Coil
> > Old Resistor
> >
> > The miss is not consistent but is almost always there. I used the
inductive
> > p/up from my timing light and determined that the miss is present as far
> > back as the coil wire. Tell me if I'm correct in my thinking, but this
> > leaves only the distributor or coil to be at fault, right?
> >
>
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