I was trying to tune my son's Satellite yesterday. It is a 1974 318.

It has sat for a year so it is running poorly. The gas is fresh, on high idle it runs fine,but when it kicks down, it will die. I set the idle up a bit and went to check the timing.

As I rotated the distributor, to walk the timing back towards 0, the idle came way down and then the timing light quit firing. Is that a misfire on #1 cylinder? Or was there not enough energy for the inductive circuit to pick up the circuit firing? Never had that happen before.