<VV> Misses like crazy

[corvairduval at cox.net]

And a good time to check the wear of the pivot on the points plate. The plate grounds through this pivot, so wear here can also cause a miss as the vacuum advance moves the plate.

These plate pivots can be rebuilt.

Frank DuVal

---- Jim Simpson via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote: 
> Also check the "little black wire".  That's the wire that goes into the
> distributor to connect to the points.  It flexes near the entry point as
> the vacuum advance works it back and forth and over the years and as the
> copper wire work hardens, it can break internally.
> 
> When you first start or are accelerating, the vacuum is low so the wire
> might be held in a position where it makes contact, but when cruising the
> vacuum advance moves it and the contact becomes intermittent.
> 
> Worth replacing every decade or two...
> 
> Jim Simpson
> Group Corvair