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How are you adjusting the timing? Intermittent, wandering idle isn't an indication of an incorrect ignition advance. I suspect something else is going on and your timing tweaks are just hiding it.... that or the distributor is physically broken and moving it is lining up some just right so it works until that part drifts some more (usually wiring in that situation).
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