missing or stumbling on acceleration

[1930artdeco]

Hi Folks,

This one has me baffled-not that that is hard to do sometimes. Here are the symptoms. Upon acceleration in 1stgear she is fine, move to second she is fine 90% of the time, third gear and she stumbles, misses and stumbles an coughs but she still accelerates. Then when she hits about 40-45 all is well and she cruise just fine.

What I have done: I opened up the GAV-no change, Altered the spark-no change, cleaned the plugs, changed the carb-all no change. No I am running the 3X plugs and #1 just started leaking oil out of the gasket area between the base and small part of the plug-not sure what to call it. Some sooting of the base but the ceramic was clean albeit dark grey/black. The dist. body had all of the electrical arcing evidence on the bottom half of the steel studs. Here temp is around 180 at the top and 170 at the bottom of the radiator.

Theories: coil going bad when under a load? maybe the condenser-I did change that awhile back and no real difference. I am going to change plugs this week to see what happens.

Thanks,

Mike