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Old 04-16-2002, 05:57 AM
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Jack,

I had the vacume advance arm slip off the post in my distributer plate once. it jammed the plate in a WAY retarded mode. The engine immegiately got very very hot.

Retarded timing can be a major source of engine heat even if the cooling system is fine.

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