guess what!? I bought a new condenser & points (both of the brand name echlin - or something like that) for US$10 & it kind of improved for a couple of hours.

So, I've cleaned & re-gapped my plugs, changed condenser & points as well as played around with air mixture & idle screws on my carb, yet still i have a problem.

a more accurate description of the problem is that at times, it sounds as if its not firing on all cylinders. when i took the plugs out to clean em, I noticed that the two on the left (closer to the dashboard) hard a much darker deposit than the two plugs on the right. the plugs on the right had a brownish deposit & the ones on the left were black! i can be driving down the road & then it starts - sounding like its missing - not firing on all cylinders, hesitating, loss of power.... then all on its own it can come right and run smoothly. this is after i've done maintenance, it can be any time of day (but i've noticed especially when i'm warming the car up in the morning)....

I'm planning on trying to find a new cap & leads to try, i've got a coil that's in my mini that i wanna change across. but otherwise, i dont know what could be causing this!

help guys, please?!?