B&M Converter is bad

crackedback said

How did it run at idle before they monkeyed with the timing? Did it idle like a POS? Need to run at 1200 rpm? If not you should be able to deduce where the problem lies.

I use an ages old inductive timing light that doesn't have a dial back on it. Works on everything I've ever hooked it up to.

If that dyno was free that's one thing, if you paid for it, I'd be less than happy. Wish I could do work like that, mess up one end of the way an engine runs, and have people pay me for it. :)

Click to expand...

Before I brought it to them, the car would idle at 600-800, but once put into gear it died immediately. So I turned up the idle to get it to stay running once it was in gear.

I can tell you this. I did find a box that I got when I bought the car. The last owner had a new pickup and spring kit in there, that was opened. So something was changed in the distributor. I just dont know what yet.

I was planning on just picking up a basic gun. I think its about $40.

No, unfortunately that dyno cost some good money. It does have much better mid to high range now, just the low side sucks butt.

I found a good article on how to set up Mopar distributors that breaks it down pretty well for people like me. Although its breaking it down to adjusting the vacuum advance also. From the sounds of it I only need to worry about initial and mechanical.