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Old 06-30-2011, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by DanEC View Post
Are you running all mechanical advance or do you have a vacuum advance distributor? It sounds somewhat like an over-advanced condition I had with my BB Corvette motor with a vacuum advance distributor.

A bad plug wire is another possibility. Seems they show up more under light load and idle than any other time.

No vacc. advance. All of the plug wire are from 120 to 130 ohm resistance.
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