Hello all,
I recently took my 77 down to my local Toyota to have the carb tuned and have the motor looked at in general since it was still running a bit funky and I had finished a lot of back-to-stock fixes. The mechanic got the idle way better, and found my distributor was off by 3 teeth. That vastly improved Performance. He then said that my vacuum advance on the distributor was no longer working, it still needed a valve adjustment, and then the carb needed retuned. All well and good so far.. so I looked for a new vacuum advance for my distributor online and did not find one for my year, for the us. But I did find a new distributor at city racer. It says it works on 77 on. So I’m not sure if it will match my cruisers distributor..
On another leg of this quest, the oem wires going to my distributor are not being used.. from what I can tell my igniter is being bypassed for an aftermarket one on my firewall (firewall XR700), and it looks like something has been added to the inside of my distributor because of that...
My questions..
-will city racers vacuum advance distributor work in a 4/77 40?
-what has been done to my distributor?
-and can I still try to run a stock Distributor?
Alternately...
-can the current vacuum advance be fixed?
I know this is a tall order but I will include many pictures and can supply more if asked.
I would appreciate any help.
I recently took my 77 down to my local Toyota to have the carb tuned and have the motor looked at in general since it was still running a bit funky and I had finished a lot of back-to-stock fixes. The mechanic got the idle way better, and found my distributor was off by 3 teeth. That vastly improved Performance. He then said that my vacuum advance on the distributor was no longer working, it still needed a valve adjustment, and then the carb needed retuned. All well and good so far.. so I looked for a new vacuum advance for my distributor online and did not find one for my year, for the us. But I did find a new distributor at city racer. It says it works on 77 on. So I’m not sure if it will match my cruisers distributor..
On another leg of this quest, the oem wires going to my distributor are not being used.. from what I can tell my igniter is being bypassed for an aftermarket one on my firewall (firewall XR700), and it looks like something has been added to the inside of my distributor because of that...
My questions..
-will city racers vacuum advance distributor work in a 4/77 40?
-what has been done to my distributor?
-and can I still try to run a stock Distributor?
Alternately...
-can the current vacuum advance be fixed?
I know this is a tall order but I will include many pictures and can supply more if asked.
I would appreciate any help.