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Hello everyone. For those of you who have been watching my dilemma of intermittant spark, I wish to relay to you I found and solved the problem. Many of you kept suggesting "point float", which to me seemed logical, so today I decided to pull the dist. on my truck and have a closer look. I removed the dist. and tore it apart looking for a problem. Upon closer examination of my point set-up I noticed the "tensioner" for the points to be outside the brass contact leading to the points (hope you know what I am talking about), rather then behind the points (which would add MUCH more tension to the points). Very little tension to the point = "point float". I installed the metal tensioner into the PROPER location, reinstalled the dist. and lo and behold no more intermittant spark. What we have here is a classic case of rectal-cranial inversion on my part. The truck now runs up to VERY high RPM without any problem. To top things off today, after I installed the points properly it was time to road test it. So off I go and 2 blocks from home it dies, I cuss, I check out everything, tow the truck home to discover it is out of fuel. Refill, start and smooth as glass she is. That was my day up till this point, and I still have to go to work. How was your day? :-(