I have to give credit to Skip for walking me through some issues with the distributor movement.

I found that the distributor cable wire clamp was broken. I has a friend come over and one operated the starter button, and I watched the distributor movement. I watch the wire housing move back and forth and not the distributor.

Skip explained to me that the wire clamp needs to be tight to prevent the wire housing from moving.

I repaired that and reset the cable length correctly to get more movement from advance to retard position.

The most important piece of advice Skip offered was to set the timing to 18 degrees TDC on the compression stroke, and move the distributor body to line up with nbr one cylinder.

The increase in timing is due to the octane rate we use today.

This begs the question of how many other antique cars are in the same predicament with high octane?

By "distributor cable wire clamp" are you referring to the to the conduit that the manual advance control travels through?

Thanks, Lou

Thank you for bringing up the clamp.

I am talking about the small cable that has the wire going through it to advance and retard the spark. The clamp is the small clamp that hold the cable in place.

thanks! I thought that was what you were speaking of, but just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something