In a message dated 10/15/2007 11:23:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
max_heim@sbcglobal.net writes:
I
have to say I was curious why, if you thought it might be a timing problem,
that you bought a new distributor and set it at exactly the same timing as
the old one. I would have thought the logical first step would be to change
the timing on the existing distributor.
The old vacum advance was toast, and I worried that if it was bad, the
weights, springs and such might be just as bad, as they were just as old.
The 11
degree BTDC is what's on the sticker on the car, near the bonnet latch.
John Twist suggested 15 degrees BTDC at 1500 RPM. I'll try that next.
As for the head gasket, wouldn't that cause water in the oil, or oil in the
water, or some sort of contamination or at least water vapor smoke out the
tail pipe?
Regards,
Robert B. Houston
63 TR4
74.5 MGBGT
73 MG Midget
b&Reminds me of my safari in Africa, somebody forgot the corkscrew and for
several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. W. C Fields
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