you should be able to grab the dizzy and rotate it by hand, that's the allowance for the advance, it runs best when you set it with a timing light, then let the advance can [and internal mechanical advance] do the moving .... check the shop manual

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics