40 degrees initial!

RustyRatRod said
Lemmie ask you if you remember.....does one of the springs you have have a slot in one end? If it does, that might be your problem. That requires almost no RPM at all before you get some advance. If you have that, you need to throw it in the ditch and put one in there that does not have the slot. That was a leftover from the emissions days when these engines were anemic and needed all the help they could get.

Hey Rusty. I pulled the distributor and, what do you know, both springs had slots. And one of the "eyes" broke -- with barely any pressure -- as I was removing it. So I'm replacing them with two good "full circle" springs. It may not do much as far as my original post, but these springs needed to be replaced either way.