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Originally Posted by Joe's Garage
It was mentioned once, but you need to confirm that the timing mark is indeed at TDC for cylinder #1. If the mark is off, everything else is moot.
Have you tried to just turn the distributor until the timing is actually at 8* BTDC with the vacuum advance disconnected and plugged?
You will probably need to turn your idle speed down if you do this, and then readjust the idle mixtures, too.
Just curious.....
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Spent some time checking to make sure the distributor rotor was in fact on #1 plug wire at TDC. Was thinking maybe the PO had everything rotated one position. All looked good however.
I did turn the distributor more and got the timing close to TDC, but the idle actually decreased rather than increased as I would have expected. Idle is noticeably rougher and car just runs like crap.
Will readjust idle mixture and see what I get.