Well, got all three plugs out on the passenger side. They all looked sooty but cleaned up easily. I’m not optimistic about the drivers side. I cannot even see them from above, even after removing the large rubber elbow going into the intake manifold. This car has all the original smog equipment still intact.
So I’m moving on to pulling the distributor. I don’t see a way to turn over the engine by hand, tried the alternator bolt, pulley just slips so I will just keep trying the starter and hope I get lucky.
Here is a picture of the valve attached to the blue (retard) hose. If anyone can tell me how to test it I would be grateful. It does not hold vacuum when unpowered, haven’t tried w 12v there. As you can see, there are two similar valves adjacent to one another.
