Thanks for the encouragment, guys
I'm just tired, I think. It's so blasted hot and sticky here right now, it's like equatorial Guana. Trying to do too much, too. Super daddy, super husband, super employee, super mechanic. Too much.
My wife (Mrs. FiatFiend) is taking a couple of college classes this summer so I've got the kids (5 and 4) by myself a little more than normal. I'd like to think that they are capable of playing outside for 30 minutes at a stretch so I can study the engine bay, but they can't, of course. Screaming and wailing about nothing or "Daddy" this and "Daddy" that.
Yesterday after work I took the carb air filter holder plates off so I could really see the carb. My little girl walks over, says, "What's this daddy?", picks up one of the corks and promptly breaks it in half.
(sigh)
But speaking of the vacuum advance, Eastep. You are right. I couldn't figure out why the vac.ad. wasn't hooked up, so I opened the distributer. (and you're right, too, Kevin, I can get to it, but you can't compare it to the engine bay of a six-cyl. 1966 mustang with no air-cont.) Under the cap, the stock stuff has been totally replaced with Bosch stuff. I had noticed the grey Bosch ele.ig. earlier. There was a plastic shield stamped "Made in Germany" under the rotor. I think I'll just put a little plastic nipple cap over the vac-ad. diaphram nozzle and have done.
Sorry for the bitching. Normally their grandparents will borrow them every thrird or fourth weekend, but they've had their own problems lately.
Dave