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My 73 Manta with a Weber 32/36 has been running very rough lately. Went to set the timing tonight to make sure that was fine but the flywheel is missing the "ball". I set the distributor to the mark on the housing by rotating the engine and assumed that the ball should now be by the pointer. There was no ball, only what appeared to be a depression where the ball probably was. I marked the depression with a drop of white out and then proceeded to set the timing: pulled and plugged both vacuum lines and brought the car to running temperature. Put the timing light on plug wire #1 and when I aimed it at the mark the pointer was there but no white mark. Proceeded to slowly rotate the distrib. hoping that the mark would come in line but it never showed. Now what? Car was running ok when I first began but began to stall when it was fully warmed up. Thought maybe it was vapor locking as I had the car in my garage due to rain and it had been running for quite a while. The problem I was having with it was missing under load and having no power. It would idle fine but when you got it going it really balked (auto-tran). It just started it about 2 weeks ago. No vacuum leaks to be found and plugs, wires, and Pertronix are all new. I am open to any and all suggestions!
Jeff Pozorski
73 Tempermental Manta
Jeff Pozorski
73 Tempermental Manta