[Spits] Weird engine idle

Doug Braun doug at dougbraun.com
Sun Sep 2 18:02:17 MDT 2007


Has anyone ever re-bushed a Spit distributor to
fix sloppy timing?  Can new bushings be gotten?

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

--- "Clark W. Nicholls" <clarkfot at cwnicholls.net>
wrote:

> Are you sure there's no spark only on that cylinder?
> Check the points gap too.
> Try it on different dist cam lobes, see if it
> changes.
> If the distributor is worn and the shaft wobbles it
> could be worse on that
> one cylinder perhaps.
> I solved my worn distributor by installing the
> crane/Allison solid state
> system. 
> Let us know!


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