ggenovez,

You were right about the timing too. What a damn important lesson. Check the timing yourself and adjust for drivability. I may have mentioned that two separate Mercedes mechanics checked the timing. I kinda feel like there is no one in my town that really knows these cars. Sometimes you have to step outside the book and not depend only on specs it seems.

So I advanced the timing by hand with no light. I just wanted to give it a try tomorrow when the high will be 10degrees. Before doing so I checked the oil. It seems to smell a lot like gas and is pretty watery. My milage on my last tank of gas was under 9mpg. This made me get out there and change the timing. My other symptom was that from a start my car drives like it has 8 men in the back. Absolutely sluggish. This also improved quite a bit. I dare say it accelerates like it should, or close. The fact that I am starting in 2nd gear doesn't bother me. It seems like acceptable acceleration.

Thanks for the help. I am curious how it starts in the morning. It usually takes me a couple minutes of low idle followed by backfires out the carbs that stall the engine. Maybe that is better too. I have been thinking a couple times a day about the Weber conversion kit. I'll put that off again. . . for now.

Next onto my new vibration problem.

Eddie

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