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Old 10-09-2018, 12:30 PM
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Greg, It is not unusual for the distributor to be a little frozen in place. There is (or should be) a gasket between it and the block that needs to be freed up. I'd spray WD-40 on that area and then try tapping on the base of the dizzy with a drift. Once it is freed up, it will rotate very easily. During the actual timing process "snug" the hold down bolt enough so that you can still rotate it but don't have it loose enough the engine will rotate it. If you are using a timing light, it is important that the advance weights are fully retarded. Reducing the idle as much as possible should insure this. If your carb is clean and you do not have a PCV valve, an idle of about 700 rpm is normally attainable. I have found that I can adjust any of my carb's idle mixture screws to about 1-3/8 turns out and have a good "out of the box" idle. Hope this helps.
Tom
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