[Spridgets] Hif44 setup

Ron Soave soavero at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 1 04:29:24 MDT 2018


(You should see the rotor pointing roughly at plug wire #1; also “getters” is supposed to be “degrees.” Stupid autocorrect)

Ron Soave

> On Jun 1, 2018, at 5:13 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Andy,
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> The jet should start at .060 inches below the bridge. In reality, I drive my cars in a relatively narrow band of ambient conditions and I usually never touch the jet nuts after that. You can statically time the Hall Effect type distributors. Take the collar magnet and find the actual magnetic portion of it (only a few degrees of the circle.). Mark that spot on the magnet with a paint pen, then turn CCW until your mark is  just a bit past the middle of the horseshoe pickup. That should get you close to the factory 4 or 5 getters (I forget.). See attached pic - hope that helps. 
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> Ron Soave
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>> On Jun 1, 2018, at 3:33 AM, Andy Webster via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> Greetings,
>> I'm having all sorts of trouble getting my engine to run.
>> Fresh rebuild, has run since but have some issues.
>> In setting up a hif44 ( which I used for years already), should the jet start off level with the alloy bridge or the brass ring, which is slightly recessed in the bridge? (See pic).
>> One problem is that I have multiple possible culprits. New distributor amongst them ( in fact I am trying amongst 3 distributors, my original but worn 25d, an electronic 45d from minispares and an Aldon 45d yellow, which some of you saw the wonky points of, the other day).
>> I just want to get the carb to a starting point.
>> I know I have good compression, a spark and fuel.. the recipe is there.
>> Can't static time the electronic dizzy, but can with the 2 points dizzys.
>> Was having head gasket issue, leak between 2&3, but then I noticed I was supposed to torque to 50lb/ft not the 40lb/ft I thought. Manual says 50 for studs with a drill point on the end, never saw that bit before! So hopefully I have sorted that..also used a Payen BK450 instead of the £9 eBay gasket I started with (for shame).
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>> Itching to get it running right, been off the road 3 years now!!
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>> Cheers 
>> Andy
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