lagg on take off and high rpm

[T-stone]

smells like gas so i assume so

[FastWoman]

Does it burn if you strike a match to it? (Careful not to burn your fingers! You might hold the match with a pair of pliers.)

Apparently fuel fouling can occur from running the wrong temp of plugs. What plugs are you running?

Either that, or you're running REALLY RICH!

[Bruce Palmer]

Black and fuel soaked? Surprised it'll run at all.

[Dobber]

T-stone, just went back over your post and you mention that you are waiting for a resister for your coil. If you have been running a coil that is ment to have a resister, without one, the chances are, that the coil is fried.

[T-stone]

I was running the original coil with resistor.

was waiting on resistor so i could put the new one in.

i was talking with a local mechanic, he said it is the distributor causing the problems.

[Dobber]

Thats great. ( not that you have a prob. with your dis. but that you have found the prob. ) Hope that puts things back on trck for you. good luck and pls. keep us updated.

[T-stone]

the mechanic said that i need to set the gap on the points or something like that, im not familiar with distributors at all.

im i need of some help with this

[T-stone]

i looked it up and found that the point gap should be set to .018

i will set the gap and timing.. hope this clears all the issues

if i have incorrect info please let me know

[Dobber]

0.018 - 0.022 in. You can just pull the coil wire, put the car in first, then push or pull car ( doesn't take much ) until the heal of the cam follower is on the highest point of the dist. cam, set the gap with a feeler gauge and thats as good as it gets. Still think you might have a mixture prob. but it will all come together with some tuning.

[T-stone]

i changed the point out, the one on it was fried.

after changing it out and setting the gap it did great.

i found that if you leave the ignition on when the car is not running and the point has a gap it will continuously fire and burn the point.

Thanks for all the help

[FastWoman]

Cool! I hope that does it. You might drive your car a couple hundred miles on fresh plugs and then read them. I suspect you might still have a mixture problem.

BTW, points are a pain! You might consider upgrading your ignition sometime to electronic.

[T-stone]

I am trying to find an electronic diss from a 280, but not having much luck