[T3] tune up and wow... what a difference
Brian Fye
bfye at canyonville.net
Mon May 28 12:22:44 PDT 2012
I am hoping to get under deck of my car tomorrow or wednesday
On 5/28/12, Bobsnotch at aol.com <Bobsnotch at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/25/2012 11:44:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> Bobsnotch at aol.com writes:
>
>
> In a message dated 5/25/2012 11:04:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jadney at vwtype3.org writes:
>
> The feeler gauge setting is only approximate, especially with used
> points. The dwell meter (assuming you trust the calibration of your
> dwell meter) reading is the one to follow. Sometimes it's worthwhile
> to borrow another dwell meter to see if it reads the same as yours. I
> calibrated mine years ago, after it had an unrelated problem. It was
> right on, but they usually have internal calibration pots and it's
> possible that yours has drifted.
>
>
> These were new points (that I bought from you in Carthage). After
> Sunday's
> deal, I thought I'd replace them before heading out to Colorado. My old
> points had a large gap too, but the dwell was only 45. Those points were
> at
> least 5 years old, and were used going to Missouri and back (Bosch
> parts).
> I'll look around, and see if I have another dwell meter, but the one I'm
> using, I've had for over 20 years now, and it really only gets used once
> or
> twice a year, otherwise it sits in the cabinet. I might try the spare
> distributor that I carry for road trips, just to make sure things are
> working
> correctly.
>
>
>
> Well, after doing a little reading thru Bentley, I found that opening the
> points, drops the dwell. Anyway, I did swap over to my spare distributor, as
>
> I found that the vacuum can on the old one wouldn't hold vacuum. After
> installing the spare, and setting the timing, WOW, what a difference. It
> really woke the car up. It started up very easily, and runs smooth from
> idle all
> the way up to 3500 rpms. I did check the dwell on it too, and found it to
> be 58 (which according to Bentley is ok for a used set of points, which it
>
> has). The idle speed is a little higher than I'd like (about 875), but it's
>
> so smooth that I think I'll leave it alone. Now I can concentrate on
> getting the rest of the car ready to go to Colorado (finishing up some
> minor
> stuff, packing tools and spares, that sort of stuff).
>
> I did try the other dwell meter I have here, and found it to be off, as it
>
> was reading 42 (versus my normal meter's 58). I think the older unit is
> probably pretty close, but if you split the difference of the readings
> between
> the 2, then you end up with 50. ;-)
>
> Bob 65 Notch S with sunroof and IRS (Krusty)
> 64 T-34 Ghia (Wolfie)
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Brian Fye
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