| Distributor question and a thanks to Steve Ferguson [message #224051] |
Sun, 29 September 2013 21:22  |
skip2
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Tried to PM Steve with this but he doesn't accept them so I will have to bug the forum once again
Just wanted to thank Steve and pick your brains on the distributor suggestion. The distributor might have a problem but Steve' suggestion prompted me to to open up the motor and that probably prevented my coach from burning to the lug nuts. I pull the covers and started the motor and got hit the face with what I thought was water but it burned and smelled like gas. The fancy stainless braided fuel line I ran from the electric pump had sprung leaks in the middle of the run up the right front of the motor and the fan was blowing it everywhere. I thought I smelled fuel when I first started it on last weekends trip but I put it off to the choke taking to long to open. It was leaking in the middle of the run with nothing to cause damage to it. Thanks Steve, I always believed God sometimes puts things in place some to keep me out of trouble, I guess Steve was an unwilling angel.
Now back to the distributor, it is the points type from 74 with the mallory unilite ignition inside. The vacumn advance works fine with the brake bleeder pump hooked to it. If the centrifugal weights were to hang up and not work as fast as they should do you think it could cause a lag, not a blubber, when I accelerate hard since the vacumn advance normally doesn't have much vacumn on hard acceleration. I can cruise at 60mph on flat ground and hold 15inches of vacumn. I sorta remember the weights, when I put on a new rotor, and the pivot points and springs were badly worn, sloppy. Could they also hang up after running and coming to a stop and hold the spark advance up and not letting the idle drop? I have to keep popping the throttle a little to get it to drop(then of course the light turns green). First thought it was the old worn throttle shafts that the Qjets were known for but can't simulate it by moving the throttle shaft by hand and trying to find a bad spot. The accelerator pump squirts plenty of fuel and if you ease into with just a fast acceleration, not stomping it the floor, it runs like the preverbial winged mammal out of the eternal place of punishment. Do you know of any upgrades to this distributor, I like the fact I can throw in a set of point and a condenser if the unilite fails and I'm moving on so I'd rather stay with this old style after reading some of the issues with the HEI's. I know someone out there has "been there done that". Also, before you ask, I checked and the vacumn line is hooked to the port above the throttle plate so the vacumn at idle is very little.
As usual, Thanks,
Skip Hartline
863-557-0085
74 Canyon Lands, FiTech,
3.7 FD LSD, Manny Tranny,
Springfield Distributor,
2001 Chevy Tracker Ragtop Towd
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