[tortuga]

Sounds like timing...dumb question, but the dizzy hold down didn't loosen did it? Wasn't in there wrong to begin with as you indicated you ran through the gears...if you take the cap off is there crazy play? (Gear bad) are the guts all in place? Has the pickup corroded all to $hit? Sure sounds like timing, maybe a bad Msd box, haven't seen one myself but have seen the guts of a dizzy look like they were pulled from the wreck of the titanic...if it's running at all I wouldn't think coil...