Good point. In the manual they did list "Standard" "California" and "Federal". We went with the Federal one. Though I still don't remember seeing a spec for 3K rpm. I certainly could be wrong and I will look at that.

Again keep in mind this is the first car in a very very long time that I have had to adjust timing. Looking at the crank and the timing degree marks, I assume "advance" is to the right of 0. We could see 10, 20, 30, with 5 actually having a distinct mark. So if I get this up to 3K and adjust the timing to 30, once we let off the gas, it should return to 5......?

When we started out, the timing mark was at about 10. We turned the distributor clockwise, it went to 5. Again this was at idle. I will follow your advice and check it again at the other 2 rpms. I am to do this with the vaccuum line on the vaccuum advance, correct?

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