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i've hooked up both vac lines the way it should be now, top canister line to manifold, and bottom line to carb vac. but as soon as the top one is connected, the idle shoots up, as the timing is advanced up around 10 deg higher by the vac. this causes pinging, and I can't get the idle bellow 1000 rpm...

Maybe the other wire on the electric dizzy is for a tacho, but my tacho must get it's feed from someplace else, as it runs fine without any wires connected to the dizzy other than a 12v ignition feed. And since this dizzy has it's own coil, my coil is now out of action, so I don't see how it could h...

thanks DLB, great to know where the two lines should be going!

Sorry, no vid, the data restrictions on the wifi where I am staying are really low.
But I have posted what I did in the thread that was about the same job:
https://tercel4wd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8890

It's running great!

Hi, this thread didn't seem to go very far, I don't know if the original guy who started it ever went ahead and had any luck or not, but I just did this job and thought I would share. I had the same style dizzy as Dinka by the sounds of it, external coil, centre lead runs from dizzy over to coil, bu...

so is it a good thing to spray some water into the air intake while engine is running? I've watched a few vids on youtube about steam cleaning out the carbon from the engine, some guys spray a hose down their air intake while engine is revving around 2000rpms. I reckon I have a bad buildup of carbon...

THe wireing diagram shows a black/yellow wire comming from the ignition switch to dizzy (12 v) then to a noise filter .the other black wire comming from dizzy is connected to the tac and the AC amplifier , under the dash. Larry I'm going to attempt to install the electronic dizzy today. I will try ...

This is a quick and easy method to test if your alternator is working or not. And also how I figured out what was wrong with my charging system. How to just straight up test your alternator for output. Step 1: Remove main cable and the 3 wired plug from the back of the alternator. Step 2: Start engi...

I did some quick research on YouTube... I searched "How to wire an externally regulated alternator" and got a few good hits. The first one I watched was about an 85 model Ford, and the dude straight up told me what no one to date had been able to tell me, very very useful info. How to just...

ok, GOOD NEWS: All the rough running was just timing. I went around to the mechanics place and the first thing we did was put a timing light on it, and found that the timing was so far out that we couldn't find the mark on the flywheel for a while, it was half way round to the left, so about 120 deg...

yesterday i located a tercel at a wrecking yard that looks in better shape than mine in the engine bay. The mechanic i had with me said it smelled like the engine got cooked, maybe he lost all his oil, because the radiator is in like-new condition and still full of good green. The dizzy on it is an ...

thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll start working through them all today. The new Bosch plugs I got have a much smaller gap than the old NGK ones I was running... probably around the suggested amount of 0.032" was it? Took her for a drive up the road about 15 mins each way, running rough as g...

ok thanks guys, glad you liked the vid, i just went down to the store and got all new Bosch plugs and leads, and I had a spare set of new points in the back of the car i discovered, so thats all fitted now, but it still runs rough and shaky as before, with the big lack of power i was experiencing be...

New vid done uploading...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25_59aM_8zw

Thanks for the replies everyone, I've been out all day so haven't yet had a chance to do a few more checks. But the thing I have not yet done is pull a plug wire while getting someone else to turn it over and check for spark. Also while I had it all torn down and set at the timing marks of TDC with ...