Reassembly,
After your silicone or plasti dip has dried it's time for reassemble. Put the diaphram back together the same way it was, make sure the large washer has the lip upwards. Reinstall your spring and put the body together, you will have some resistance from the spring.
Now go back to your block of wood and sit the VA in the hole, now ideally you will have a few different shaped hammers I couldn't find my panel beating hammers so I used a claw hammer and vice grips. Holding the VA so the lip you have to close is upward gently tap a few spots from an angle to hold it together lightly. Now before its all tight turn the arm to the right location, you will be able to turn it later but you may undo the screw in the end.
Whilst holding the VA firmly down with a small square hammer tap all around the sides of the lip working your way around a few times, try and get the sides as tight as possible. Next tap the lip on the angle closing the lip downwards on the body, the with a small cold chisel tap the last of the lip flat down. And that's basically it for the Vac advance pretty simple, I sucked in the hose before reinstalling and I couldn't get any air through. Once I find my hammers in going to neaten the folding but it works just fine the way it is.
Next reinstall the vac advance, if your lucky you will be able to fish the pin into the hole. If not take the cap off, GENTLY! GENTLY! pull the rotor arm off and unscrew the baseplate. Fish your way until you get the pin through the hole in the arm, and screw the VA back onto the dissy. While you have the base plate off put a drop of oil onto the weights and a drop into the shaft. Reassemble your dissy, fire it up unplug the VA and check the ignition timing.
Plug the vacuum advance hose back in and enjoy all that extra torque and HP you forgot you had!
Most of this is picked off the web but I thought it would be good to open a thread for it.
Hope it helps some one out there!
Cheers Jim
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