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Base plate APT screw removal success!

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Shiny:
That's a good ending and I'm happy to hear about your success.

Sounds like a nice car that makes you smile...  nicely done.

Cliff Ruggles:
Good news and glad to help out. 

If you follow advice from most self proclaimed "gurus" on distributor stuff you'd have a junk set of MrGasket light springs in there and wouldn't be using the vacuum advance.

For some reason I'll NEVER understand with these things is that folks think for some reason that these engines need ALL the timing right off idle and no additional timing from the VA.

I also see a lot of folks switching over to manifold vacuum instead of leaving it on ported vacuum like the factory did way back then.  High compression engines with well chosen camshafts will not like, want, need or respond well to a butt-load of timing at idle speed. 

Save those mods for your fresh 350 SBC engine with dished pistons, 882 heads, RV cam and .060" thick head gaskets.  It's going to want ALL the timing you can put to it at idle and everyplace else to make a whopping 200hp!......Cliff

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