Sorry, I responded from my new phone. Not good and the new spell check isn't good either.
You could stick a screwdriver in the cam gear drive and "unscrew it" to move it a notch or you could just move the plug wires on the cap.
i went and pulled the dist out and rotated it with no success. all i got were hardish knocks big backfires and no start. i think i may have tried every possible position. so i put it back to how it was. after adjusting the timing the thing has shown improvement, idle is nice, revs are pretty crispy up to about 3k but it still breaks up to the same degree as it did before. i'm thinking it may be my voltage. tomorrow i'l try powering from a full 12V wire and see what happens. currently even though i bypassed the ballast, the coil is getting about 6v with key in the "run" position. once running it's above 14V, but pertronix tech notes call for 8v min with key in "run" position. not sure what dif it would make but i'll give it a shot.
