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You also 1700, so (funny story about the harsh environments we race our cars in popped up last night), I got 5 test passes in yesterday and car runs right, working on the tree attempting to trim the stall correctly am happy with the test.

I move my car over to the storage unit 10 miles from the track and mark, take pics and remove my simple distributor to bring it home and I can barely move by hand the shaft of the distributor. How often once we find the sweet spot in timing, do we actually remove, clean and adjust 1 of the hardest working parts of our car?

How many actually de-pin (remove the roll pins), disassemble the unit down to the bare shaft, grease and reassemble it if it is working right? It was right just 2 seasons ago, but has been through a lot. I could turn it, but just barely by hand.

In the center of the shaft is a grease groove, and a machined spiral that drives any oil that may climb the shaft back downward in the normal direction
of operation, that was packed with dirt, hardened and solidified grease (and plenty of dirt track clay it appeared that was bound up between the shaft grooves and the brass shaft bushing).

I actually had to drive the shaft out if the
bushing and use carb dip to dissolve the
old grease and clay. It was a new part just 2 seasons ago. (1 really dusty event though in November 2023 at Vegas though when we needed to use leaf blowers to blow off cars and pit surfaces. The body was full of clay dust below the HEP plate. A nasty black powder.

The old saying if it is working don't touch it does not fly. It had to be robbing HP period. Lessons learned. But, hard to do, mess with timing once you find that sweet spot where it works right. Until it just doesn't.

It was borderline, and was about to cause major issues. If it were not for solving the square wave signal issue of the Holley ECU, that would have not been found until it bound up solid.

A blessing in disguise. And I already have the replacement. And a new item to add to the "maintenance it more often list" whether I want to or not.

That part is only 2 seasons old. A simple hall effect distro. But it works hard and has lived in a filthy windy/dusty environment and the charged ions internally attract dust, dirt and grime and has plenty of holes engineered into it to vent out those ions. And a spiral machined groove to drive the oil southward back into the block.

The smallest things can easily be overlooked.