Or severe pitting in the points or wear on the rubbing block, or slop in
the breaker plate. For $5 to $8 you might as well replace the points and
re-gap (cheapest fix). Swapping to a rebuilt re-curved distributor fixes a
lot of ills (more expensive fix), and as others mentioned is usually all
prepped for simply dropping in.
Fred - So.SF
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>Subject: RE: Dwell vs Gap
>Author: "Brian Hollands" <bholland@hayes.ds.adp.com>
>Date: 7/20/2001 2:05 PM
>
>The only thing I can think of that might cause the dwell to be correct
>and the gap to be wrong is slop in the distributor shaft or the wrong
>set of points. If the dwell is correct and the car runs well, I
>wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
>Brian
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Dear List,
>
>I was checking out the dwell on my 67.5 1600 last night. It seems that
>with the points gapped to .021", the dwell was around 34 degrees. To
>get the dwell to 50 degrees, the gap was around .015". From reading
>other posts, I should rely on the dwell, not the gap, correct? Does
>this discrepency mean anything?
>
>Thanks again...Robert - 67.5 1600 - ABQ
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