Q: I can't advance to 10° because of my distributors at the end

asked by on October 06, 2016

It starts but I can't adjust it to 10° because it starts where the distributor ends, so it looks like it sucks air. It hesitates, and noisy lifters or shims

My car has 300000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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