Yep this is why I go armed with car info. Yes I took the washers off when I was googling info and saw a post of yours on some random link about the spark plug tubes. I bought this car as a runner and the autolites that were in there had the washers on them. When I did all this then found another one of your posts about the NGK plug that solved everything. But I am not done. I am going to install my wide band and see what this thing is really doing. Plus I am going to try and recurve this distributor myself. Its my very first /6 so the learning curve is fast.