Bad running

[Tony Press]

"If you have an auto advance distributor,  it doesn't need lubricating, since the body only rotates when you are setting up the timing. "

Eerr! No !  The greaser or oiler lubricate the shaft in the body 

"providing you have also removed the control rod and the pinch plate holding down nut."

Eerr no! Not on the auto advance distributor : unless you have an early manual advance engine fitted with a later auti advance distributor