I am a friend of squee and I took a look at his car. It is as he says, the distributor is fully advanced and it still puts out a reading of 10 on the gun. (for those of you that don't know, the factory settings are 15, -/+2). I thought maybe I was doing something wrong, so I tried to set the timing by ear, but when I retarted it, it would only get worse, like it should. So with the distributor fully advanced its close too but not correctly timed. Could the distributor itself be the problem? Thats what I think, but I want to know for sure before we go out and spend 250+ on a new dist.
Any help would be appreciated, we've had nothing but problems with this car since day one, and I can't figure out whats wrong with it and its driving me crazy.