On 9/24/2010 9:53 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
The book method is to have a remote starter button, but I'd use it so
seldom that I never thought it was worth it. Kinda like a dwell
meter. I always set the points by gap. When I finally got up enough
jingees to afford a dwell meter, I found my gap was more accurate than
the meter.
<<SNIP>>
Assbackwards thinking here. The performance requirement on the old
systems was the degrees of dwell to saturate the coil. *The point gap
was given as a reference figure* to the backyard mechanic who didn't
have access to proper timing & setting equipment.
"Back in the day', a good shop would put the distributor on a bench
machine and set the dwell and timing advance. They than set the initial
timing when installing the distributor.
Problem, due to all the mechanics involved, the optimun settings were
very short lived and you need consistent high quality fuel.
My gas burners usually go 100Kmi with no ignition related maintainance.
--
Pete Arnold
"You win some, You loose some and You wreck some!
-Dale Earnhardt-
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