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well upon the second breakdown of the car i decided to check my dizzy just b/c it was the only thing i hadn't replaced on the car for running like ****.
brought it to work today to have a friend help me decipher what was up with it. AND the KILLER is............. rust....the vaccum control arm rusted in place and the counter weights we not doing their job b/c of rust as well.
If i would've just rebuilt the whole thing instead of replacing just the points the car would've ran right, and i would've seen the rust and taken it down cleaned it up real nice and it would've been great!

 

It makes sense from the problems you were having.
I had just assumed they were working correctly.
I guess you did too.

 

now i can begin a rebuild, carb is rebuilt, the dizzy my or may not stay w/ a rebuild, and the head are being ported to go into something else.