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Posted by: messix Feb 11 2006, 05:45 PM

these friggin little four poppers dont't have enough humps on the points cam to get em to break so you can can a intial gap for dwell.
the idle has been geting a bit rough so i did some detective work and cleaned up the points instead of replacing them cause i don't have any with me and i'm csob. and put em back in and "F" with em for about a 1/2 hr till i get em to 42% cloise enough. now snowflake runs nice again. i'm gonna have to get one of them electronic coversions. i dont wanna have to do that again.

Posted by: SLITS Feb 11 2006, 05:50 PM

Itsa easier iffin you pop the cap...make a mark on the case, dizzy where the rotor's pointin and pull the dizzy.

So says Slits......

But Ron runs crane/allison in his cars

Posted by: messix Feb 11 2006, 05:59 PM

yeah i thought of that after i'd been doin it awhile.

Posted by: rhodyguy Feb 11 2006, 06:04 PM

it's real, REAL easy if you open up the ends of the holes in the hinge arms of the engine lid, so you just loosen the 2 bolts a bit, side the damn thing back, and remove it entirely. makes timing a breeze too.

k

Posted by: messix Feb 11 2006, 06:06 PM

your a smart guy

Posted by: Headrage Feb 11 2006, 06:11 PM

QUOTE (rhodyguy @ Feb 11 2006, 04:04 PM)
it's real, REAL easy if you open up the ends of the holes in the hinge arms of the engine lid, so you just loosen the 2 bolts a bit, side the damn thing back, and remove it entirely. makes timing a breeze too.

k

Joe Sharp taught me that trick...

Haven't done it yet though.

Posted by: porsche914blue Feb 11 2006, 06:14 PM

If you mod the engine lid to be removable can you keep the torsion springs or do you lose those?

Posted by: spiritedTreiber Feb 11 2006, 06:18 PM

The springs stay on the lid, so all you do is slot the bolt holes for the lid.

Posted by: rhodyguy Feb 11 2006, 06:22 PM

you think it makes points and timing easy...carbs are nothing after the mod. unless you like bending up like a pretzel and tweeking your neck in the process.

k

Posted by: rdauenhauer Feb 11 2006, 06:40 PM

one word...Pertronix

Posted by: rhodyguy Feb 11 2006, 06:42 PM

8 words. carry a set of points in the glovebox, (4 more) a feeler gauge too.

k

Posted by: r_towle Feb 11 2006, 06:54 PM

3 bucks for a set of point...

Or mmmm 125 for petronics...
And for most people that I have seen install them here...it takes two sets to read the manual...so the first set is blown...

It will be many years before I can justify petronics...

Rich

Posted by: Flat VW Feb 11 2006, 06:58 PM

Pertronics=about seventy bucks, here in Phoenix

Yes, get the polarity correct the FIRST time.

John

Posted by: r_towle Feb 11 2006, 08:23 PM

QUOTE (Flat VW @ Feb 11 2006, 07:58 PM)
Pertronics=about seventy bucks, here in Phoenix

Yes, get the polarity correct the FIRST time.

John

25 sets of points.

I change mine once or twice a year.

so 12 years anyways....

Rich

Posted by: rhodyguy Feb 12 2006, 12:43 AM

why reinvent the wheel?

k

Posted by: Dr. Roger Feb 12 2006, 01:03 AM

QUOTE (rhodyguy @ Feb 11 2006, 11:43 PM)
why reinvent the wheel?

k

"PerTronix".

I like to think of it as "Retail Therapy".

Or, "One less damn thnig to worry about on this ol' thing"

=-)

Roger