Two other possible checks that I have had to contend with in Miss Prudence. Check your fuel line to make sure it is not clogged. Check your distributor to see that it is advancing properly as you increase speed. Good Luck. Ernie

UPDATE...Good afternoon all. Well, Miss Prudence was treated to a 35 mile ride on a AAA flatbed, to my friends shop, and we found that we had inconsistant fire. We finally pulled the distributor and disassembled it...to find that one of the two spring loaded weights that move the distributor cam had come dislodged from its position and was dragging around the edge of the distributor case completely out of its normal position. There was lots of very tiny ground metalbitd inside mixed with the grease that was in the distributor. We disassembled everything and cleaned it all and then put it all back together. We took one 10 mile test run and then I drove Miss Prudence home, 35 miles in city traffic and she did fine. All is well that ends well! Ernie

Good Evening all...Yes Fred it certainly seems to have! Thank you HH56 for the diagram it will be very helpful tomorrow. I suspect that my hair will be full of grime from scratching my head while working on this. Ernie

Good Evening all...Miss Prudence quit on the road today, not far from home.
After checking everything, we took the distributor apart and discovered that one advance arm is hitting the case and has left a lot of bits of metal in the distributor and we think shorting to the case. Does any one have a good exploded diagram of a Delco 1110811? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ernie

Good Morning all...Believe it or not, it rained here in the Desert yesterday and so I changed one bad spark plug and installed new plug wires on 'Miss Prudence' and she is once more happy! She is a good girl and it doesn't take much to keep her happy. Thanks for all your help. Ernie

Good Evening...All the great mechanics that I know are older than I am( 70) and almost all are grumpy!

One exception Alex Alfaro and he is maybe 52 or so and if it has wheels, then he'll work on it. He is the exception that proves the rule.

The oldest and best I know always says 'Go to the simplest possible answer and start there'. That is what Fred has done...follow the footprints...Ernie

Good Morning all...I'm wondering if the vacuum guage that is being used is not correct. I can't imagine that all of the cylinders would drop to the same amount of low vacuum. Ernie

Good afternoon all...What I meant by missing on the second half was when the throttle is more than half depressed when moving fairly fast in second gear and then on the road at 45 mph or more.

I took the old girl to a far more skilled friend today and he put the distributor on a sun distributor machine and made some adjustments. Points were too close, the cam dwell angle was slightly off, the distributor cap and rotor were fine, a spring had come loose on a metering rod in the carburator, one spark plug had a piece of the insulator broken off, and the plug wires were for a more modern machine, they are not steel or coper wire. I received a new set for Christmas, so they will be going in tomorrow. The old girl is running much better, once the plug is replaced and the wires are changed, we'll see what we have left to do. I'll get a hold of Fred's guys on Monday and order a correct condenser...but at least NAPA had one that would get the old girl running....Thanks, Ernie

Thank you Fred...We have a NAPA store around the corner and they had a six volt condencer from Echlin, number RR174 that I installed and the old girl started right up! She is still missing on the second half of the throttle and back firing a bit...so I'll have to start to figure that out tomorrow. It could be the coil, I guess, but it is only about 3 years old. I guess the old girl is just grumpy...I'll have to speak softly and see what happens. Thanks, Ernie

Good Morning all...I need to change the condenser on this distributor for our 1949 288 Deluxe. I can see the screw that holds the condenser clamp, at the bottom, but I don't see how the wire detaches at the top of the distributor. It looks like it might go into a clamp but I'm not sure. What is the correct way to disconnect the wire? Thanks, Ernie