I must be doing something wrong

And once the timing is checked and set. See if you have a good flow out of the Gas Tank. The system maybe slightly plugged and your starving for fuel. Remember, Fuel, Air Combustion.

John Poole
 
Ok. I thought I'd post a follow-up. First - Thank You to all of you who helped. Second - I have to send a big shout out to Mike's "A" Ford-able Model A Parts.

I pulled the distributor and the intermediate shaft groove did not look too good. So, I ordered upper & lower shafts along with ancillary parts. I also sent a link to this thread to Mikes. Erich at Mikes (who has given me great advice along the path) called us up and made a suggestion that our Oil Pump Drive Gear may be seriously worn. We discussed all the issues and he put together a kit for me (Erich tried talking me out of some parts that he felt probably did not need replacing but I wanted to change since I was in the area anyway).
Boy, was Erich right. While the lower shaft groove was worn, the play due to that was nothing compared to the drive gear. Changed the drive gear, bearing, lower & upper shafts, cam, cam screw, and all the other stuff that goes along with it. Now, my play is miniscule and best of all, first test drive was at 47 mph. My test hill was climbed at 40 mph while still accelerating. Tried to get it to overheat by driving a lot and idling it for a while. No more overheat. Now to get on to other things. By the way - only took 1 fast 2 minute adjustment to get the timing right. As my wife said "we now have a Model A".
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And to all you guys that want to steal my wife - HAH! No Way! Her first car was an 68' Chevelle with 327. She loves helping me with the cars and knows how to adjust the clutch slave cylinder on an 1969 Alfa Romeo. She does all the cleaning and detailing for car shows and drives everything we have.
 
Tom Wesenberg said:
If the freeplay is kept to the leading side of the cam rotation (as it would be while running) the timing should be able to be set correctly, but that much freeplay does need to be fixed, or you might be fixing it on the side of the road.
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Sorry to steal into this posting, but I am having problems with my huckster having a miss at idling speeds. I posted a lot of stuff on another posting and still have not found the problem. The only thing I have not done, is pull the distributor and replace the shafts. The one in the rig now is a single shaft.

So Tom if you would please give me your opinion on this. I find when I rotate my distributor rotor, it will move about 1/4 to 1/2 inch around the distributor body. Could this cause a miss at idle speeds? As I posted in the other post, I have tried about everything else and nothing has worked yet. At high speeds it works great. I noticed that on my coupe, the rotor almost does not move at all and that rig runs great at all times.

Please give me a little hint is this could be the problem. And sorry about a hijack of this posting.
 
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