What the hell is going on?? I posted a reply last nite and now it's gone... Oh well...

Here's the scoop: I determined that the distributor had jumped a tooth. I put #1 cyl at TDC on the firing stroke, pulled the cap and the rotor was pointing to #8 cyl, one terminal off. I then discovered that the dist wasn't seating properly so i yanked it again and found that the oil pump drive tang on the dist shaft was shorter than the one on my HEI. In other words when you drop it in, it bottoms on the oil drive shaft and doesnt sit down completely. I carefully trimmed it to the exact length as the HEI and it seemed to fix the prob, as it seated properly.

Took her for a ride, ran fine until i punched it. I heard a pop sound and the car started to miss again. Sure enough, the dist jumped a tooth again! So this is not a prob with the ignition box. I wanted to know if anyone has had probs with accell distributors not seating properly. HEI works fine. Accell makes it jump a tooth... HELP!