After checking out sll the tips that didn't involve any dough being spent. I sucked it up and invested the 15 bucks (I think that was it) and got a pick-up coil. Installed, no easy matter ya know, and tuned it up as I had removed the distrib to do the job. Fired right up. It still ran crappy though, sort of pulsating. Sounded like a vac leak. I started pinching lines and as soon as I did the vac advance line it settled down. So I pulled that line and blocked it. The car idled real nice. I am on my way to finish it up and I will pick up a vac advance, must be leaking. Thanks all. That must have been a prob all along as it was getting increasingly worse. Maybe I'll do a ign upgrade. I like the MSD setup on my hot rod I6....Russ _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com