LA 318 Dying when put in gear and high idle issue solved!

Randall Hendricks said
My finding is solid. Period. My fuel mixture was the same. My idle set screw the same. Timing the same. Only thing that was different was pickup gap. Yet somehow that wasn’t the problem according to you. But it worked. So magically it just started working right? No. Stop it. You’re embarrassing yourself.

Hey Randall, you might want to try returning the gap back to previous setting, see how it runs and then try 0.005" again. I think that's called ABA testing - make a change from A to B, then go back to A. I've been having distributor problems off and on, so keep us posted please.