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Old 08-28-2018, 05:30 PM
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Neil, if you can mark the accy pulley when #1 is firing you can replace the distributor in approximately the same place using the direction the rotor is pointed as another mark. Then you can just pull it out and do a good job on it.

WARNING, these old distributors are mostly shot as far as the cam in the distributor is concerned so setting the points with a gap is almost worthless as that gap now due to wear of the cam is going to through the dwell off (way to much ) which is what you are trying to set. You really need a dwell meter and or a distributor machine to set accurately.

My personal suggestion is to convert to EI and you won't need to touch it again for 100's of hours . Well worth doing.

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