Greetings,
So, had the distributor blow up on me the other day finally. I've known it was going for a while, but kept putting it off. Anyway, an unexpected $200 later and the distributor is installed, and car is running. I had to time 'by ear' to get it to my clubhouse where there is a timing light.
I followed the instructions, pulled and plugged the vacuum lines and checked the timing marks. The timing seems to constantly waver quite a bit, to the point where you can't actually time the car. I'm going to try a different light (his was internal battery powered) and see if I have the same issues. What could be causing that? New distributor makes me wonder if the timing belt is going . It already has 150k+ miles on it. Either way, right now I have to drive it so it's set to the 'by ear'
method, but I prefer things to be right.
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