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Mike,
>Have you went over the plug wires with a timing light
Yes, I checked and have spark on all but did not notice if there were any
misses while I was doing it, strictly looking for a dead wire at that point.
I will check more on that tomorrow.
>you are disconnecting the vacuum advance right?,,then that could be
>ruled out but the weights still might effect it)
The Mallory is not a vacuum unit, centrifical advance is the term I believe.
>As for the knock it could be a bearing,,,thinking there that the
> >clearances
>are greater when cold and therefore a little "play",,,after warming the
>engine up they are "tighter",,,,also,,what type oil are you >running?,,,
10-30
>A scenario I ran into with my chevelle (396) was the torque converter
> >bolts had
>loosened up a bit and when it first started up it sounded just
> >like,,exactly
>like,, a bad bearing
Might be some merit in that one....It is a VERY intermitent knock. Shortly
after I first bought the car the starter began slipping off the flywheel
occassionally. I thought the worst but it turned out to be a missing
flywheel bolt letting it flex just enough to skip off.
Scott
71 Malibu 350
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