Originally Posted by SafeChav
Personally..........i reckon you've got a diozzy that someones been fucking about with, and the leads are all 1 out on the cap. So therefore your out adjustment dizzy will run the car fully retarded with the leads 90 degrees out, but a proper dizzy won't.......
Just what I was thinking. Could be that the Dizzy you have got has been rebuilt incorrectly at some time which has been compensated for by moving the leads around in the cap...
A simple check would be to look at where the rotor arm is pointing with the current distributor on the car - then swap it for one that doesn't work. If the rotor arm is now pointing in a different direction then that's the prob...