On 9/25/2010 10:54 AM, Dieselhead wrote:
I never found a shop that had a test stand for a distributor, much
less knew how to work on one. If the dist was suspect, the drill
was to get a dist out of the junkyard, install new points and cond.
and set the gap or dwell. The theory involves dwell, but in
practice, if you set the gap right, you never need a dwell meter.
I always checked the gap on several different lobes of the cam to
be sure it was right. I also found that when you install a dist,
if you turn the dist to the point where the gap just opens to the
spec with the crank set to the timing mark, the timing is right
on. you can check it with a light, but if you do this carefully,
you never need a timing light or dwell meter. I invented that
trick the first time I ever messed with timing, on a 69 BMW R50/2
magneto.
Did you 'invent' that system before or after Dan Quale 'invented'
the internet.
I figured it out on my own based on reading how you were supposed to
do it with tools I'd never have. I did that a lot with MBs and BMW
back in the 70s. Just because I was not the first to invent the
system doesn't mean I didn't think of it independently. That was in
1970, Maybe the beginnings of DARPA, but long before what became
known as the internet. And, it was albore who claimed to invent the
internet.
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