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Originally Posted by ramonesfreak
What's the best way to check if distributor advance is frozen and if it is, what's the fix?
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Pull the cap. Twist the rotor with your finger tips. It should be able to move maybe 1/2"-ish at the perimeter. 3/8" more conservatively. The big thing is can you move the dist shaft against the springs in the mechanical advance. If it moves, you know it's not frozen but does not guarantee it's perfect.
The hell method is to get a timing light, plot out degrees on your crank pulley and see if it gets to 20-23 BTDC at a mere 3,000 RPM. You are then maxed. Forget the 32 BTDC at 6,000 RPM like earlier cars could pull. The SC will not do that.
An easier layman method is to use a timing light and simply watch the pulley marks move away from TDC when you blip it.
The fix is as deep as you want to go. Pull the distributor, open it up and free the frozen parts. The other extreme is send it off for a rebuild. It's pretty basic ONCE you become familiar with it.
I can't see this as an issue, honestly. You bog then it responds. If frozen, it would bog, period.
In third gear it pulls nicely up to 5,500?