In a message dated 7/25/2007 5:40:23 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
terryrs@comcast.net writes:
and the points were still closed! (to the naked eye, anyway)
How in the heck did this thing keep running????
Terry,
>From years of changing points it's amazing to me to see these cars running
on what appears to be "no point gap". The key to your observation that the
points were closed is "to the naked eye" since they must have been opening or
you wouldn't be collapsing the magnetic field in the coil and causing a spark.
As many responses have noted, get a good quality point set with condenser
and get a good quality rotor. Use a small dab of dist shaft lube so the
rubbing block won't wear down quickly. The range of point gap is .014" to
.016"
for proper dwell angle. I like to set new points to .016" - that way you've
got a tolerance of .002" to allow for the rubbing block to eventually wear
down.
Chip Krout
Delaware Valley Triumphs, Ltd.
Skippack, PA
1976 TR6 CF57822U
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