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| Robson51 |
 Mar 5 2020, 11:48 AM
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I am working on a 2.0 and have read a bit about the distributor vacuum advance/retard. It seems like the vacuum advance is just to get through a rough spot at part throttle, and does not affect the total amount of advance.
I understand the retard was there for emissions only. So my question is this- What happens if I run the car with both disconnected? I would love to get a 123 set up, since the car is running fuel injection, but it's not in the budget right now. How will it run? Thanks- Rob |
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| GregAmy |
Mar 5 2020, 01:30 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,311 Joined: 22-February 13 From: Middletown CT Member No.: 15,565 Region Association: North East States 
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Just curious: why do you want to remove it? Are the pots damaged?
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| Robson51 |
Mar 5 2020, 04:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 18-November 19 From: seattle Member No.: 23,654 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
QUOTE(GregAmy @ Mar 5 2020, 11:30 AM)  Just curious: why do you want to remove it? Are the pots damaged? PO only had advance hooked up. The more I looked into it, it almost seemed like it's basically a centrifugal distributor with vacuum only to help it through some rough patches. I just thought I would ask. |
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| Gatornapper |
Mar 8 2020, 06:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,235 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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Don't want to hi-jack this thread, but had a weird thing happen to my 0 231 181 009 dizzy re: centrifugal advance. Last Thursday, engine was running perfectly with Pertronix 1847V ignitor that seemed to fail.
I put points in the dizzy, and now the centrifugal advance does not work at all. Did nothing but pull the dizzy, put in points, all centrifugal advance gone. Yesterday put in Hot-Spark ignitor which of course changed nothing. Will rebuild the dizzy next week and see internally what stopped the weights from working.....but no idea what would bring the change....no, did not drop the dizzy. Meanwhile, put a new Hot-Spark ignitor in my old 0 231 178 009 and its CA is working fine. Just prefer the advance curve in the 181... Oh - and as I'm running Webers, I'm not using, nor do I need, the vacuum advance/retard...... GN QUOTE(Robson51 @ Mar 5 2020, 05:30 PM) QUOTE(GregAmy @ Mar 5 2020, 11:30 AM) Just curious: why do you want to remove it? Are the pots damaged? PO only had advance hooked up. The more I looked into it, it almost seemed like it's basically a centrifugal distributor with vacuum only to help it through some rough patches. I just thought I would ask. |
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Robson51 2.0 distributor advance/retard question Mar 5 2020, 11:48 AM
IronHillRestorations You want them both connected. You can run it with... Mar 5 2020, 12:42 PM Bleyseng I run it with just the vacuum advance hooked up an... Mar 5 2020, 01:15 PM
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Don't want to hi-jack this thread, but had a ... Mar 8 2020, 09:49 AM Gatornapper Brent -
I believe the rotating plates are only mo... Mar 8 2020, 07:38 PM Bleyseng If the advance weights inside are spotlessly clean... Mar 5 2020, 01:54 PM Robson51
If the advance weights inside are spotlessly clea... Mar 6 2020, 02:26 PM bbrock I'm curious why people disconnect their vacuum... Mar 5 2020, 04:06 PM |
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