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Originally Posted by Adam1978
timing and carb are WAY out of sync lol i know that, my tach is broken and i dont have a timing light, and the carb itself has linkage issues and is just worn out from 33 years of use, i rebuilt it but alot of the inside looked kinda used lol and the dashpot has a hole in it and doesnt work anymore, plus the choke linkage to the back butterflies seems flakey and idk why, all vacuum lines were replaced and vacuum is working fine, it was running really bad and i found an open line in the carb and plugged it with a rubber nipple and it seems to run alot better now, the tach is an easy fix i just broke the wire that comes off of the distributor, once i get that fixed im gunna buy a timing light and try to set the timing, does anyone know what the timing is supposed to be on one of these things?
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Adam,
All due respect, you are jumping the gun something awful. It sounds like you need to spend some time and a little money figuring out what you have before you go balls deep into a rebuild.
1.) If you don't know what you are doing rebuilding a Q-Jet you probably made a few mistakes. Even seasoned car guys trash Qjets because they can be hard to tune or work with. I'm not going to say run to a Holley, but this establishes that your carb is an issue.
2.) You had a big vacuum leak. If you tried to tune it with the open line you need to redo your tune.
3.) The vacuum advance that I am speaking of can help your car run cleaner. Make sure there is a vacuum line running to your distributor.
If you can, take a couple pics and post them up. And some more info about the underhood setup would help.