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[hambone]

Spot-on dwell makes the engine run much better. Maybe I'm just crazy enough to notice.
Without a dwell meter, you have no idea of what that gap should be.

[Sylvester]

What are we talking about here?
The plate is supposed is supposed to rotate in a controlled arc. As described in my post above, under strict parameters, it rotates in a brief arc at the behest of the vacuum unit.
So what is "float"? What were you asking? Something about looseness, or the fact that it is supposed to move at all?
Anything more than a tightly controlled arc, piloted by the center hole, changes the point gap as it slops away from the breaker cam lobes.

I tell you what, tomorrow I will set the gap and check the dwell, and take a video of what I am doing with some pictures and show you what I mean. I know it is not rocket science but hey, the more I understand the better this Bus will run, eh Brutus?

[Amskeptic]

hey, the more I understand the better this Bus will run, eh Brutus?

This is what I live for.
Colin

[Sylvester]

Will have to do the pictures later, but yesterday the dwell was at 41. It took me an hour to set it right, actually I hit it at 50-51. I timed it after tha but had no time to do a test run, that will be this morning. I will report.

[Amskeptic]

Will have to do the pictures later, but yesterday the dwell was at 41. It took me an hour to set it right, actually I hit it at 50-51. I timed it after tha but had no time to do a test run, that will be this morning. I will report.

50* the one people call the holy grail, is pretty near the wear limit. Shoot for 45-47* which is a nice slide of the feeler blade with no rattle no drag.
Colin

[Sylvester]

Will have to do the pictures later, but yesterday the dwell was at 41. It took me an hour to set it right, actually I hit it at 50-51. I timed it after tha but had no time to do a test run, that will be this morning. I will report.

50* the one people call the holy grail, is pretty near the wear limit. Shoot for 45-47* which is a nice slide of the feeler blade with no rattle no drag.
Colin

Now you tell me! I was hitting 45-47 for 20 minutes and could not hit 50 to save my life! It does run a lot better today, no stammer at 60 plus!

[Amskeptic]

Will have to do the pictures later, but yesterday the dwell was at 41. It took me an hour to set it right, actually I hit it at 50-51. I timed it after tha but had no time to do a test run, that will be this morning. I will report.

50* the one people call the holy grail, is pretty near the wear limit. Shoot for 45-47* which is a nice slide of the feeler blade with no rattle no drag.
Colin

Now you tell me! I was hitting 45-47 for 20 minutes and could not hit 50 to save my life! It does run a lot better today, no stammer at 60 plus!

Crap boy. I been telling everyone since dirt. 45* is the optimum, factory lets points wear down to 50* factory spec is 44-50* dwell only goes up over time, don't nobody listen? You listenin boy?