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Dwell won't stay put: suggestions?
Posted by Brian Glover [Email] (more from Brian Glover) on Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:41:39
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Hey, y'all. I'm not much of a mechanic, so please excuse my ignorance here. Problem is, none of the Saab mechanics in my area want to deal with a '74 99 any more, so it's time for me to become one, I guess. Anyway:
My 1974 99L has a carb, but I've got the Bosch distributor from the fuel-injected model in there. It ran well with that arrangement for many years, but now the dwell just won't stay put, no matter how tightly the distributor and points are screwed down. A couple of mechs have tried to fix it, but when it changes on them, they give up. The timing chain is, apparently, OK (I had a new one put in, along with the timing gears, a few years ago; it ran well for about a year, before this problem started).
So: do you know what causes this problem? Is the distributor itself bad, or is it the shaft that drives it? Could the drive gear be worn out?
Thanks,
Brian
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