I think I found my timing problem.

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I started getting into the distributor tonight and look what I found when I removed the rotor.

The second and third pictures show the one weight pin out of the hole. Not sure how this happened. I am pretty damn sure this didnt happen when I removed the rotor. Plus the pin has little teeth on it that did not want to go back into the hole.

The first picture shows how the little plate in the middle is raised on one side (arrow) and not the other. It was like this at first, then it got a little worse as I tried to tap that pin back into place.

When I got the pin back in I put the weight and springs back into place and placed the rotor back on top and just snapped it by hand and it wasnt very quick to respond. I took the rotor back off and played with it by hand. It was slow and not smooth at all. There is a lot of resistance when turning by hand. The weight that was out of place doesnt slide smoothly across the plate the weights sit on.

What do you guys think, do you think this would cause the problems I was having?