yep I think so...im getting a lil happy now because I remember bak wheb I had a similarproblem with my 74 dart slant six...a friend of mine unplugged a hose or wire of the middle of something...im guessing from the the distributor...and siad...now try it...and it didn't sstall...I didn't try that because I couldn't remember what it was he unplugged...was that wire or hose in the middle of a distributor part of the vacuum advance? (dont even know what vacuum adv. is haha)