[W126 Coupe] Ignition vacuum advance question/problem

[Josh Allen]

Well, I've taken the other distributor apart to see what makes it tick, 
and found nothing much of great complexity, just aggravation in getting 
it apart.
So, off to look at the one on the engine in the car, and noticed that 
I'd forgotten to hook the vacuum line back up after tinkering last night. 

Since I had the vac pump there to test the first distributor, why not 
double check this one for fun, right?  Heh, leaky vacuum can on the 
car's distributor, just not fully failed. 

Now to sucker a friend into holding throttle at the test speeds so I can 
re-test this and see if I need to pull the distributor for a full tear 
down or not.


Thanks again for the input,
-Josh



Josh Allen wrote:

> Ok, I'll take a look, maybe pick apart the one off of my parts motor 

> first to see what's going on before I tempt Murphy by fiddling with 

> the one on my car.

>

> Thanks,

> -Josh

>

> Jonathan Hodgman wrote:

>> Sounds like the weighs aren't moving...I'd take the dist. out and 

>> clean the pivots up.  Bosch actually makes a distributor lube but 1 

>> tube will last about 10 lifetimes!

>>

>> Jono 

>

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