We did pull the plugs, noted they were sooty and too rich, and replaced with new-gapped plugs. Wires, coil, condensor, points, distributor cap are all pretty new, maybe 18-24 months and less than 8000 miles. Timing was checked...

What are you thinking? Water under distributor cap? Bad coil? Dirty points?

I have worked on a sneaky, but not well informed, suspicion about the ignition, so much that I bought new Pertronix solid state points...they have not been installed. My suspicions are more about "just replace everthing and you will get it" method, not very scientific.



R-Bo

1959 Apache 1/2 ton Big Window, Short bed Fleetside (under reconstruction)
1966 GMC 305V6 in the family