Walt,
Are your bad points pitted or burned? Since you have had two sets of bad
points recently it makes one wonder if something about your situation is
causing points to fail. The first thing that comes to mind is that maybe
your coil requires the use of a ballast resistor and yet there isn't one,
causing the voltage at the coil to be too high.
Gary
'73
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Philipson" <WaltP@Anspach.com>
To: "6 Pack (E-mail)" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:33 AM
Subject: running great - finally
> Some of you may remember my plea for help a month or so ago. I had tuned
up
> the car with new points, plugs, condenser, cap, rotor, adjusted valves,
and
> rebuilt the carbs and the car would begin missing badly after 4 or 5
miles.
> I've been busy, but have been slowly trying to find the problem. I got
some
> good ideas from the list ranging from worn distributor bushings to clogged
> fuel lines, bad coil, plugs, wires, ... and tried to address them all.
This
> weekend I was determined to fix it. I pulled the carbs (again) to make
sure
> everything was correct. Started working my way through the ignition
(again)
> changing one part at a time. The culprit? A bad set of points. The second
> set since all this started. Oh well.
>
> Went for a 40 mile spin, greasy hands and smelling of gas. DAMN it felt
> good!
>
> Walt Philipson
> waltp@anspach.com
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