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liftlawssuck · 08-29-2018, 08:26 AM

Yes I noticed the counter weights were extremely worn out so I swapped it out with a known good distributor off my other truck. Same results.

So the thing that me wondering is this: Before when I first started this whole thing I could move dist. and it would respond normally. That's when I noticed that when advanced it to around 29* it ran much better. Now after some time it has no affect. So what did we change. Other than wires, plugs, cap, rotor and other bolt on things. The biggest thing was the timing chain. After all back together turning dist. has no affect. I did check timing and initial is at 29* it will go up maybe a couple degrees before starting to stumble. Retard it and it stumbles right away.

Very frustrating and my son is losing hope and talking about selling it.

08-29-2018, 08:26 AM	#25
liftlawssuck Registered User Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: MA Posts: 353	Re: Backfire under loads Yes I noticed the counter weights were extremely worn out so I swapped it out with a known good distributor off my other truck. Same results. So the thing that me wondering is this: Before when I first started this whole thing I could move dist. and it would respond normally. That's when I noticed that when advanced it to around 29* it ran much better. Now after some time it has no affect. So what did we change. Other than wires, plugs, cap, rotor and other bolt on things. The biggest thing was the timing chain. After all back together turning dist. has no affect. I did check timing and initial is at 29* it will go up maybe a couple degrees before starting to stumble. Retard it and it stumbles right away. Very frustrating and my son is losing hope and talking about selling it.