Losing my mind trying to get this 360 to run right

bdusted440 said

before you go much further the pick up on the dizzy might be wired backwards. I fought this exact problem with mine.different years were wired differently.i cut the wires and reversed them and timing worked perfect.before couldn't get it below like 20 deg.

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They were not changed on different years. If the polarity is wrong it's because the pickup was built wrong AKA defective, but this does and has happened

gtmopar said

Thanks bd guess I could swap the wires on the coil and give it a shot. Thanks bud. I'm willing to travel the path of least resistance work wise.

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He's not talking about coil wires. He's talking about the two distributor pickup coil wires. Reversing them moves spark timing in relation to the distributor rotor, IE "rotor phasing."