With that number of miles I would check the wires on the pickup coil in the
distributer. . from all of the movement over the years they get frayed.
If they are bad I would replace the whole distributer with one from Dick
Paterson. He blue prints and sells them for the GMc at a very reasonable price.
P.S. .060" is to wide for the stock ignition. I run .045. with patersons
distributer you can run .060" if you use 8MM premium silicon wires.
>We own a 76 PB with 141k miles on the engine. It has always been serviced on
>time and well cared for by the people we bought her from four years ago. Two
>weeks ago; in preparation for a short trip to Tulsa, I cranked her up and
>idled for a while. Then I started to pull out of the garage and she balked
>when I accelerated. When I quickly mashed the pedal, she would die if I
>didn't let up. So I thought I'd start eliminating. I checked and replaced
>the hose to the vacuum advance.........replaced the in-line fuel filter and
>the filter going in the carb. I replaced the rubber fuel line down on the
>frame. I replaced the plugs (gapped at 60). It seemed to be better so we
>went on our trip. We took a side trip thru the mountains and we were towing
>our grand cherokee. She started pinging like crazy and still acted like she
>was starving for fuel. We had towed last year when we went to Marion with no
>difficulty. Are there any suggestions out there? I,d also like to know when
>I should I should think about changing the timing chain and gears..........Any
>help would be appreciated.......Don Redding
>
>
Tom & Marg Warner
Vernon Center NY
1976 palmbeach
distributer. . from all of the movement over the years they get frayed.
If they are bad I would replace the whole distributer with one from Dick
Paterson. He blue prints and sells them for the GMc at a very reasonable price.
P.S. .060" is to wide for the stock ignition. I run .045. with patersons
distributer you can run .060" if you use 8MM premium silicon wires.
>We own a 76 PB with 141k miles on the engine. It has always been serviced on
>time and well cared for by the people we bought her from four years ago. Two
>weeks ago; in preparation for a short trip to Tulsa, I cranked her up and
>idled for a while. Then I started to pull out of the garage and she balked
>when I accelerated. When I quickly mashed the pedal, she would die if I
>didn't let up. So I thought I'd start eliminating. I checked and replaced
>the hose to the vacuum advance.........replaced the in-line fuel filter and
>the filter going in the carb. I replaced the rubber fuel line down on the
>frame. I replaced the plugs (gapped at 60). It seemed to be better so we
>went on our trip. We took a side trip thru the mountains and we were towing
>our grand cherokee. She started pinging like crazy and still acted like she
>was starving for fuel. We had towed last year when we went to Marion with no
>difficulty. Are there any suggestions out there? I,d also like to know when
>I should I should think about changing the timing chain and gears..........Any
>help would be appreciated.......Don Redding
>
>
Tom & Marg Warner
Vernon Center NY
1976 palmbeach
