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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ford Fanatic" data-source="post: 132988" data-attributes="member: 24422">Hey all, Almost got her figured out! My neighbor came over and we brainstormed over a couple beers, and came up with disconnecting the hydraulic pump from the engine. Fired it up and she sounded a lot better! Revved up to who knows who high, I wasn't paying attention to that... ended up setting timing to 4 degrees advanced at an idle speed of 750, adjusted idle air screw out til the vacuum gauge settled at 15 in hg, repeated the process a few times to get it dialed in perfectly, and it sounds like an engine again! It advances, retards, everything with the engine works exactly how it should without bastardizing the carburetor lol So now i gotta figure out what the hold up with the pump is, if the pump is the problem, or whatever else might be causing a deadhead issue or whatever.So Thank you for all the information, helping me through learning about the vacuum gauge, how the timing advance etc on the distributor works etc... There is always another lesson to be learned. You guys are awesome. Thanks again!</blockquote>