Rich is right. My first car was a mark II Sprite. The points had to be
assembled on these posts in the distributor. All you got was a little bag of
spacers, insulated washers, springs, and the arm with the contacts. My next
car was a TR-4A that had the points as a unit. All you did was unscrew the
old ones, replace them with new, wire up the little capacitor, and set the
gap. I thought that was neat. Just like a Chevy.
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Urschel" <OSP13@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: "Donald R McKenna" <donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net>
Cc: "Anthony Tabacco" <atabacco@california.com>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 8:11 PM
Subject: Points
> Donald R McKenna wrote:
>
> > Tony,
> >
> > Would you please explain this message in grammar-school english for us
> > "dull" folks.
>
> I think he is referring to points in distributors which
> came as multiple pieces one had to assemble in
> place as opposed to those ingenious point assemblies
> that came as one drop in piece.
>
> I figure there's a narrow band of us older baby boomers
> who are old enough to have struggled with the older style
> points and still have enough brain cells to remember
> that far back.
>
> Rich Urschel
> BTW, My 1967 Lotus is altogether pointless these days,
> but it still took me five days this week to diagnose the
> TWO problems keeping it from turning over.
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