nm5k@wt.net wrote:
> TeGGeR� wrote:
>
>>
>> Then your timing belt is off, even if it looks like it's not.
>
> Could be.. The only other thing I could think of is maybe a
> sheared dist gear pin, or something like that.

highly unlikely - it has no load. only way something like that can
happen is if the retainer ring somehow disappears...

> But being I haven't
> looked at the base of one of those distributors, I couldn't say
> if they use one. I had this happen on my ford truck one time
> though. The pin sheared off at the base, and the dist would
> "wander" and gradually shift in direction until it got to the point
> that I ran out of room to turn it. Yanked it out, and saw the
> gone pin. They had those at the autoparts, and I was back
> off to the races. Seems to me, if the timing marks look
> perfectly spot on, it should be pretty close, but I've seen
> weirder things happen..
> MK
>

check the belt timing. you have all the classic symptoms.