Transfer/Transition slot adjustment

Seems as @Mattax points out, having both springs in is a good idea. Not that I doubted it, but hadn't gotten to put the big one back in yet and it's dogging during acceleration. I believe the weight without a spring is helping pull the other weight with the lighter spring out faster than I want. Not what i was going for, but it makes sense now that I think about it. I guess it's possible one spring might be ok, if it's strong enough to overcome both weights, but then what's the point. Anyway, I'll be fixing that tonight.

My plan...

1. Fix the dist.
2. Reset the xfer slot size. It's been "mucked" with again and I'm not sure where it is. Sure would be nice to be able to set the min closing from the top, then adjust idle off of that, but that's probably because I don't know what I'm doing really. :)
3. Set the timing to "stock-ish" at ~6 initial
4. advance timing, reduce idle screw per @318willrun method until it settles down.

One thing I'd like to know is how to determine the total mech advance of the dist. The "T-bar" with the slots in it has the number 30 stamped into it as I recall, which seemed really high but then again, when it's set between 5-8 it runs "ok" so maybe it's right. if that's the number, then I don't need to worry about finding what it is. If not, how does one do that off engine and no distributor machine? Also, the advance pod has "7R" so I believe that means it can add up to 14 under load?