quote:Originally posted by Belgiumbarry:
Yes, got it out and indeed , that mechanism doesn't rotate smooth, either hard and uneven.
Springs are intact .
There's alot of free play before spring tension comes in and than only a bit under tension up till the centrifugal weights hit the preset max. Explains why i only had 10° up .So we set 36° , and give us 26° at idle.
Going to shop to compare mine with a new one.
I do not see clear what's wrong ?
Look at the tabs where the springs attach to hub. The springs should be mounted to little arms.
You should be able to bend those enough to take the slack out of the advance springs.
The concern for me is why would they already be bent so much now? The most likely answer is that the springs are stretched.
You may not be interpreting what you are seeing as the springs being stretched because you have nothing else to compare them to.
The tension arms that they connect to can not possibly be that thin and weak.
The simple fix is to buy new distributor springs from Summit. They come in a kit form. You do not want to use the thin wire, low tension springs.
Those are the ones that stretch out. You also need to bend the arms in the distributor so that there is a slight tension on the spring to start off with.
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This isn't about me or my issues but you are experiencing exactly the problems I had with both the Accell and the Mallory Unilight distributors that I tried.