Thread: points adujustment

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With the cap off, so you can see the dist cam and points, bump the engine over so the wear block of the points, is sitting on a high spot of the dist cam. Won't matter which one. With the ign off, make your adjustment so you'll have 20 a thousands gap. Should get you started up. The ideal thing now, is a dwell meter to set the points while it's running. But I'm guessing you won't have one by the original question. This is old school for us old farts, but if you've never done it, or seen it before, it will seem a bit foreign. Sniper

If you don't have feeler gauges, 5 thicknesses of regular copy paper will get you to 0.019", close enough to start it.

or a match book cover
But if you have the unipoints it is kinda hard to get anything in there.

Originally Posted by willowbilly3

or a match book cover
But if you have the unipoints it is kinda hard to get anything in there.

Yeah, that's what we used to use, but I just miked one and it was 0.014". They're makin' 'em from cheaper paper these days....

Originally Posted by techinspector1

Yeah, that's what we used to use, but I just miked one and it was 0.014". They're makin' 'em from cheaper paper these days....

They used to be .017-.020. Dang cheap import stuff, you can't trust nothing anymore.
FWIW, I 86ed the points in my 390 after some intermittent problems that cost me 2 mufflers. Got the petronix and never looked back. (I still have the points in the glove box tho)