[DeTomaso] How would one set dual points on a stock distributor?

[Will Kooiman]

I used to have an Accel dual point in my Mustang (high school).

You set the points with a dwell meter with the engine running.  You removed a wire to set one set of points, then you reattached the wire to set the other set.

You used an allen wrench through the distributor body to get to the points.

It was a cool setup.

Magnetic triggers and ignition boxes make it obsolete, though.

On May 15, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Asa Jay Laughton wrote:

> It's really a pain in the rear.  Last time I did it, I got it "close 
> enough" with a feeler gauge.  It took patience, putting up with pressure 
> points as I lay across the engine trying to carefully get it right.  One 
> trick is to rotate the shaft so you make sure the peak of the bump is 
> where the greatest gap is when using the feeler gauge.  Then it was all 
> down to timing.
> 
> By the way, it ran a lot better with the new points.  The old ones were 
> way burned up.
> 
> Today, I put in the Pertronix Ignitor III module.  I'll probably fire it 
> up tomorrow.
> 
> Asa Jay
> 
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
> &  Shelley Marie
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> On 5/15/2012 3:50 PM, Dave Londry wrote:
>> Very, very long feeler gauge?
>> 
>> 
>> On 15/05/2012 3:01 PM, Rob Dumoulin wrote:
>>> When i got my non-running cat years ago the very first thing i did was put
>>> an MSD on it. But I've always wondered. How would one set points on a
>>> pantera?
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