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Re: retarded timing issue
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 4/17/2014

Hi Mitchell. It is possible that the distributor reluctor has slipped on the shaft. Try to rotate the reluctor. It is pressed onto broached splines and they corrode over time, causing the reluctor to shift out of time.

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