[DeTomaso] Dual points gap setting?
Will Kooiman
will.kooiman at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 15:18:19 EDT 2022
Wow - I haven't thought about points and dwell in forever.
I had an Accel distributor in high school that would allow you to set dwell while the engine was running. You could stick an allen wrench through a rubber grommet to reach the points.
I thought that was really cool. You didn't have to set them, start the engine and check, shut it down, set again, etc. Plus, the allen wrench meant you could very accurately set the points.
But I like MSD/electronic better. No going back for me.
On 9/2/22, 1:54 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Larry Stock" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of larrys at panteraparts.com> wrote:
Your very welcome Sean,
I spent a day, pulling my own distributor and careful setting both point gaps and running them in on a distributor machine. As soon as I started the engine, there formed a relative mountain of electro deposited metal on my new freshly set and aligned points.
FRUSTRATING
Hence, go by the dwell angle, or better yet put a 1977 style Dura-spark style blue tabbed electronic ignition system that will have enough to also power the Tach without an amplifier.
Larry
On 9/2/22, 10:24 AM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Sean Korb" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Larry, I've never been able to figure this out and I have 2
Dwell/Tachometers in my toolbox after letting go of others! The
textbook instructions never made sense to me. This is the best
explanation I've seen and it makes perfect sense on how to use the
tool now.
sean
On 9/2/22, Larry Stock <larrys at panteraparts.com> wrote:
> Breaker point gap for Minimum smog 71 Engines was .021" but you really
> should really rely on the dwell readings of 24 to 29 degrees of Dwell angle.
> As soon as you set your points and put power to them, there will be electro
> deposited degeneration of the points themselves which will result in a
> change of dwell and your engine timing.
> It is advised to set the points near the minimum dwell of 24 degrees for
> best longer term results as it will change over use.
> If the Dwell angle is too LOW, (under 24 degrees) then the breaker points
> are too WIDE
> If the Dwell angle is too HIGH, (over 29 Degrees) then the Breaker points
> are Too CLOSE
> Larry Stock
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> On 9/2/22, 9:34 AM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Forest Goodhart"
> <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of forestg at att.net>
> wrote:
>
> If I remember correctly the setting is .018 per set.
>
> On Friday, September 2, 2022 at 06:01:36 AM PDT, Panteratime via
> DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> Hope all is well! A friend of mine is asking for the gap setting
> on
> stock distributor points. (I couldn't find it in my "fat"
> technical
> information manual.) Anyone know this Gap setting?
> Thank you in advance!
> .
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