LA 318 Dying when put in gear and high idle issue solved!
But yes, please continue to tell me how my findings, that worked, are wrong. I'm thoroughly amused.
This is not the point.
The point is that some newbe is gonna find this thread using the search feature, and rush out and waste his time , going down a rabbit-trail, resetting his factory reluctor gap that I know as a FACT, will run anywhere from zero gap to .030 and more.
I know it as a fact because I have tried it.
Or worse, newbe will buy a different distributor.
Look, your engine may be idling at 800 today, this week, or next month, but one day it will quit because you tried to put a bandaid on a cut that requires stitches.
Or now that we have got to know you better, possibly you are withholding information; whether knowingly or not, no one can say.
I've been tuning Mopars since 1970, and in all those years, I have never ,not once, seen a reluctor gap do what you say yours was doing. Now, I get that it just might be, that by some oversight of the devils in the electronics, that I never got to meet the one in a million that exhibited such a symptom. OK, I get that.
But by the same token, I have even tried to create the problem, and was unsuccessful.
But I have seen several, to many cars, and motorcycles, and even lawnmowers,lol, that stalled below a certain rpm/throttle position, due to other reasons.
I guess; time will tell.