Points and Dwell setting, Yes I forgot how...I know !!! YOU DUMBASS! |
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Points and Dwell setting, Yes I forgot how...I know !!! YOU DUMBASS! |
Steve Thacker |
Aug 3 2007, 10:50 AM
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UMMMPH Yea Baby Yea ! UMMMPH Group: Members Posts: 1,089 Joined: 8-January 03 From: Pickerington, Ohio Member No.: 113 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
I can't for the life of me rember how to set dwell properly on cars. I have been setting points since I was a teenager. I get this thing on a crane optical back when I first bought the car in 2000 and it went belly up last week.
I put in new points, cap, rotor ( non rev limited), condenser, sparkys, wires oh yea a new coil in the car before I began ( back to simple old skool). yea right.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Firing order on wires set to 1-4-3-2 CW. I set the points to .016 and I can get the car started. I put a digital meter on the + and - on the coil and got the car to start with some dizzy turning ( damn it is sensitive). Well... the dwell on the meter is showing 88.8 and yes it is set on dwell. I go back make sure the point shoe is straddling the lobe on the dizzy shaft and check the gap again. Still at 016. OK I'm good... Then I proceed to start the car up again and get my timing light in place to set the timing. I set the timing light dial to 27 degrees and point it at the timing whole and look for my marks. I have the old lady rev it up to 3500 and hold it steady (great gal she is). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I look for the white mark as I'm adjusting the dizzy and pull it into view and place it in the V notch. I have her take her foot off the pedal and I take over. Well...the damn car will not rev past 4k when it is floored! The throttle body butterfly is wide open and the car is laboring. Fuel pressure is at 29lbs and steady (Adjusted valves back a year ago and have only put 40 miles on the car) What gives...am I missing something simple here? Please help fellas I'm pulling my hair out. Must be halfziemers setting in. |
ctc911ctc |
Sep 12 2018, 06:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 893 Joined: 9-June 18 From: boston Member No.: 22,206 Region Association: North East States |
Just read through this thread.
A few observations from a New member. 1. The marks on the fan wheel (impeller) are not on both sides of the fan. However, from the various pictures I have seen, can near always be found on the REAR of the fan (the side of the fan facing the rear of the car) or the hardest place to see. Even though there are notches on BOTH sides of the fan housing just to make certain to confuse us......???? 2. The theory with Dwell. Getting to the proper dwell angle is a two-stage process. 1) set the angle first with a feeler gauge - this is a coarse scale. 2) Next, fine-tune the same adjustment using a dwell meter as a vernier scale The above points (not a pun) were not obvious reading any of the literature on this site and others - thought it might assist to add these observations. Last, learned a great deal from this thread. Thanks! |
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