One additional up-date.

I installed the GM "Silver Spring" per Aggressive Ted turned the engine over and she eagerly fired right up. The car was tooth off after replacing the distributor causing me to perform some fiddling around resulting in mashing or pinching the two wires from the pick-up under the clamp-down. After a few tooth adjustments left & right, and loosing track of which way I was turning for the adjustment the car would not start, spit, cough, or fart when cranking it over.

I tested the resistance of the pick-up, found it to be off spec...

Long story short, I replaced pick-up, orange box, and upgraded to a MDS Blaster 2 coil with 0.8 ohm ballast resistor because the car would not start, and all those items were showing off speck readings.

Today after several attempts to retime the distributor by observing the valve action of #1, she sprang to life. Initial timing is much steadier at 10 BTDC, no flutter. This has enabled turning in the idle screws a turn or more, and a bit higher vacuum reading at idle.

I'm ordering the spring kit that bigslant6fan has for sale, just to get the proper fitting MOPAR spring.

I can't say definitively if the engine is making more torque at lower rpm or not, but it seems to be a bit more stout off the line.

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