Believe me guys, as much as I care about my car, I don't want to spend money on it that I don't have to. At first I was leaning heavily towards buying a new coil and putting it in there cause I thought it would help the car start more reg and cause I read of others having success with this. Thanks to your input and the fact that the car starts and runs perfect with the new fuel filter, I'm no longer gonna do that.

mberndt, my plan for the near future is to first check all the connections under the cap (when searching for the jumpy tach post and reading the related ones I found that someone fixed a similar problem by tightening the connections on the coil, if I member correct) and then when I remove the gauge cluster, which was gonna do anyway at some point, I'll make sure that's all good. The 3 main grounds are better than new and all nice and tight.

I know what you're saying proj hatch, if this car didn't have a relatively new dizzy in it already and I ended up finding out I needed to remove it to replace some parts, I would just replace the whole thing. That's very sound advice.

Once again, I sincerely appreciate all the input and advice.