Burnt rotor button?
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Burnt rotor button?
Ugh! After having a Holley 600 installed on my 73 302 per my mechanics recommendation, it runs really terribly at just above an idle when starting off or mainaining a low speed. If I give it the gas it really moves nicely. My mechanic says he thinks it has a vacuum leak. Something about the Edelbrock intake that was on it before he put the Holley on. I've been hoping it was the ignition so I replaced the plugs, wires, rotor cap and rotor button. Didn't really run much better. Here's the thing, the old rotor button and cap were burned on the tips. After driving it for about 100 miles on the interstate I noticed that the new button was burnt and slightly melted near the edge! Also, I pulled the 7 and 8 cylinder wires off of the distributor cap while it was running and couldn't see that there was any spark but the others checked out with a nice arcing spark. Did my doing this cause the distributor parts to heat up? Did the .40 - .44 Bosch plugs that I installed (I think my truck is supposed to have a .35 gap) have anything to do with it? Thanks for any help y'all may be able to provide.
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