Weird Distributor/Idle Problem
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Racer
Joined: Dec 2010
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From: Holbrook MA
Weird Distributor/Idle Problem
Over the weekend I installed an new Accell dist in my 77 L48. I set the base idle at 16 degrees and the car ran great. Then I remembered that I hadn't reconnected the vac line to the vac advance. When I did, the car idled rougher, with a slight misfire every few seconds. It has an adjustable vac canister, so I tried everything from all the way in to seven turns out, and it still idles better with the vac advance disconnected. Any ideas?
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: League City TX
The combination of your initial timing and the vacuum advance is giving you more advance at idle than the engine wants.
In order to run manifold vacuum to your vac advance, you may need to run less initial advance.
In order to run manifold vacuum to your vac advance, you may need to run less initial advance.
Instructor
Joined: Aug 2009
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From: Caledon Ont
If you have a timming light with a built in advance dial you check timing with the vacume to your dist. Set the dial to the timing you want and rotate the dist until the mark lines up to 0 on at you crank. This is good to within 2 degrees before or after TDC.
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