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swedishsteel · 05-28-2020, 08:46 PM

Car, etc: '36 5 window, '36 21 stud with Eddie Meyer heads and dual intake with 2 97's, potvin cam, 4 speed nonoverdrive s10 tranny, Bubba rebuilt dizzy and Skip rebuilt coil. A year or so ago I posted about a sporadic miss that had developed, mostly when accelerating hard in 2nd and 3rd gears. Normal accelerating, and cruise at any speed, smooth as could be. I tried all the usual: condensor, plugs, different size jets in the carb, vacuum brake, plug wires, etc. etc. finally decided to pull the dizzy off and check the points. With the feeler gauge got different settings, and upon further inspection discovered the front bushing in the dizzy was quite worn, resulting in enough play in the shaft so the point gap would vary as the rotor was turned. I had another dizzy on the shelf so touched up the points, set the gap and voila, she runs smooth and pulls hard through all the gears and any amount of push on the go pedal! So.....another thing to check if you have engine running rough. Regards. Rod

05-28-2020, 08:46 PM	#1
swedishsteel Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 357	miss(tery) solved Car, etc: '36 5 window, '36 21 stud with Eddie Meyer heads and dual intake with 2 97's, potvin cam, 4 speed nonoverdrive s10 tranny, Bubba rebuilt dizzy and Skip rebuilt coil. A year or so ago I posted about a sporadic miss that had developed, mostly when accelerating hard in 2nd and 3rd gears. Normal accelerating, and cruise at any speed, smooth as could be. I tried all the usual: condensor, plugs, different size jets in the carb, vacuum brake, plug wires, etc. etc. finally decided to pull the dizzy off and check the points. With the feeler gauge got different settings, and upon further inspection discovered the front bushing in the dizzy was quite worn, resulting in enough play in the shaft so the point gap would vary as the rotor was turned. I had another dizzy on the shelf so touched up the points, set the gap and voila, she runs smooth and pulls hard through all the gears and any amount of push on the go pedal! So.....another thing to check if you have engine running rough. Regards. Rod