[Fot] Mallory dual point trouble-shooting

[Bill Babcock]

In the first place, NEVER run emory cloth through points. If you have  
a diamond point file then you can dress them carefully, but emory  
cloth just rounds the edges and reduces the contact area.

I don't bother to look at the dwell of dual point distributors. Just  
set the point gap (to .025 as I recall, but I'm away from the notes)  
and then adjust the timing. My guess is that you're setting the point  
gap too narrow when you try to set dwell, but I could be wrong. Also,  
always suspect condensers--they're junk these days.

On Jun 30, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Scott Janzen wrote:

> My GT6 has a one year old dual point in it with mechanical advance.   
> It runs
> great when only the leading set of points are connected.  When I  
> connect the
> second set, it barely idles and breaks up through the rpm range, to  
> the extent
> it revs at all.  I changed out the points with a new set, ran emory  
> cloth
> through the points, etc, no improvement.  I'm setting the leading  
> points at 29
> degrees dwell and 35 combined.  I have initial advance at about 10  
> degrees and
> total advance at 32.  I'm sure I'm missing something obvious  
> here . . . what's
> wrong with the second set?
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Bill Babcock
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