Reply to "Vacuum"

Mark,

other than a low vacuum reading, you haven't mentioned any other problems. Tune up the timing, test drive the car if possible (weather) and get back to us on the BB if there any further problems.

I'll pass on the trip to KY right now, but once I get 6018 AND my finances into traveling condition, I plan to start doing long distance trips & visiting fellow Pantera owners around the country (maybe even Canada if they promise not to hurt me), so keep that in mind.

Any distributor with mechanical advance can have an advance mechanism hanging up. My experience with the Unilite system is that it either works or it don't. Don't forget to check the cap & rotor, they do wear out. also, the wire between the coil & the center terminal on the distributor cap will wear out much faster than the other 8 wires. Any wire that lays on an exhaust header will also fail quickly. If you run the gaps on the plugs really big, your car will run better, but the wires will fail quicker. If the wires are typical resistance wires, an ohm meter should read somewhere between 5000 and 20,000 ohms, depending upon the length of the wire.

your friend on the DTBB, George