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Hi. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I've had that problem with fuel as well. We don't have the 10% ethanol here, but our petrol generally goes off after 3 to 6 months of sitting in the tank. I can smell (and taste!) that it's off. It goes a bit caramel in colour and doesn't have the foul taste that fresh petrol does. As for my 'bird, I've sorted out my problem too. The new set of contact points had failed. For some reason, the spring metal section had lost its spring and was barely closing the points. The dwell reading read as it should, so that threw me off. When I put an ohmeter across the points when they were closed, I got 10 ohms - it should read zero. So the coil wasn't discharging properly. I put a new set of points in (same brand unfortunately) and the problem disappeared. I can't tell you how many hours I wasted on that problem!
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