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Re: Electric <-> Points

To: Mike Hartwig <mhartwig@cbu.edu>
Subject: Re: Electric <-> Points
From: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 13:15:27 +0000
Mike Hartwig wrote:
> 
> Reliability!  Hah!  Not on my two MGBs.  I've burned up two sets of points
> going from Atlanta back home to Memphis.  It seems that my points gap seems
> to change mysteriously.  Is this caused by worn parts?  Is this something I
> can
> fix, or do I empty my wallet for the new Mallory Dual Point vacuum advance?

I believe that premature points wear is the sign that the dizzy bushings
are shot.

>From the LBC dizzes I've found, there are "no user servicable parts
inside."

-- 
Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6, '61Elva(?)
"The biggest thing that happened to the six-cylinder engine in 20 years
was the seven main-bearing crank" -- John Z. DeLorean, Car Life, 1966

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