JackFish: I have a vacuum gauge installed permanently on my dashboard, and the needle is steady under all acceleration, even light acceleration when it is stumbling a bit the needle is steady at 10 inches. With a warm engine, idle is a steady 18 inches.
rbohm: What you're describing about the rotor would make sense with the symptoms I'm having. I'll try replacing it with one of the spares I have. The one currently in there is about two months old though, and looks clean. I'll also check the voltage all the way though the coil. I know the points are good, they're new, pretty clean, and I just set the gap correctly at 0.025" and the dwell is a constant 37º from idle up to at least 3000 rpm + 0.5º.
wsa111: I think I may replace my distributer soon. When I do though I would like to stick with a stock distributer, which isn't so bad since mine is a 1968 and doesn't have the load-o-matic system. I really wish I didn't have to get rid of the points system for originality sake, but I guess it looks like I'll have to, simply because the condensers and points you can buy now are such crap. I'm young, and I didn't realize there was a time when you didn't have to change both every 3,000 miles or less. When I do switch to electronic I'll probably use a pertronix retrofit in the original-type distributer.
When I do get a new distributer I would love if you could recurve it correctly for me. Thats something I don't know where to get done right. I've done a makeshift job of recurving mine because it was giving full advance way too early.
