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Yes Emailed Lars and he promptly sent the paper.
Skimmed through it and ordered the recommended spring kit to help with curve.
I have yet to buy a timing light with advance will do it this week
Yes Emailed Lars and he promptly sent the paper.
Skimmed through it and ordered the recommended spring kit to help with curve.
I have yet to buy a timing light with advance will do it this week
I will try again this weekend
Thanks for all of the help
Mike
Awesome! You are 80% of the way there. I'm quite happy with my Innova 5568, but there are plenty of timing light options. Let us know how it works out, and take some pictures.
Also, you can use it to set the dwell should you replace your current distributor with a points distributor. I bet Lars will POINT you in that direction!!
I'm so confused. What even is that? Do you have two sets of points, like a redundant dual ignition from an airplane? (though one appears to be disabled with felt)
Anyway, the springs should be attached to the advance weights above all of that. Was there anything between what you show and the rotor?
If you don't care about originality, consider upgrading to an HEI ignition.
That is an old dual point racing distributor with no vacuum advance. Useless. Replace it with the correct points distributor or replace it with a 74 tack drive HEI. Like this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/CORVETTE-TA...-/200941757896 edit. i don't even think it has centrif advance. i think that is a locked-out distributor.
Last edited by derekderek; Jun 23, 2019 at 09:47 PM.
The mallory instructions P could find illustrate the opposite like you were asking.
See below
Exactly. I was expecting to see something like you show in Figure 2 of the Mallory instructions. As @derekderek suggested, you'd be miles ahead with a stock distributor, or an HEI with a mechanical tach drive (assuming you need that, your tach may have been converted to electric, for all we know, do you have a mechanical drive on what you have?). I don't think you'll find any springs under those points, as I doubt that distributor has the capability for mechanical advance.
Anyway, Figure 2 shows a pair of springs on the advance weights, which is what @lars is describing in his instructions, or in the instructions for the distributor spring/recurve kit you have.
My 79's distributor was shot (though correct). I bought a new one off eBay, and followed the rest of Lars' instructions, and got that car squared away and performing MUCH better for about $300-, including new plugs, wires, and timing light.
Last edited by Bikespace; Jun 23, 2019 at 10:22 PM.
Thanks for the update! It looks like you have it sorted out pretty well. I'm happy to be proven wrong, and you were able to find a working advance mechanism under the dual points.
Enjoy the drive!
Last edited by Bikespace; Jun 25, 2019 at 10:20 PM.
the thing you will miss with no vacuum advance is fuel economy at cruise. but if priority right now is feeling the seat push on your shoulder blades, deal with it later. did you take the felt out from second set of points and get both sparking?
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