[T3] Distributer placement/Timing

rheorojo@F rheorojo at frontier.com
Tue Jan 14 22:53:51 PST 2014


Thanks. I have an inexpensive dwell meter, however I would normally set the dwell after timing. I will reverse the order as suggested, and I'll see if I can find a suitable grease locally.
Thanks Tim

On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:25 PM, Jim Adney wrote:

> On 14 Jan 2014 at 21:51, rheorojo at F wrote:
> 
>> Long day yesterday. I looked at both distributers. The one rebuilt by
>> you, Jim, is polished similar to a cam or crank. The other is polished
>> on the leading side but has some (minor) grooving on the trailingvance
>> side. I have the pertronix ignition in now and I'll swap them
>> tomorrow, and lube the rubbing block. I have some silicone grease, so
>> I'll put a dab of that on there unless otherwise advised.
> 
> I wouldn't recommend silicone grease here, but it might be okay. In 
> general, silicones don't make good metal to metal lubricants, but 
> they are very good for metal to plastic and metal to rubber, as well 
> as all the combinations of plastic and rubber. In this case you are 
> lubricating metal to plastic, but I'd be concerned that the silicone 
> grease would migrate down into the mechanical parts where there is 
> metal-metal contact where it wouldn't be good.
> 
> Bosch sells small tubes of grease for this. It's rather expensive, 
> but a tube will last multiple lifetimes. The main thing, however, is 
> to not let them run dry and to carefully clean all the old grease off 
> (because it probably has grit embedded in it) before you add fresh 
> grease.
> 
> Make sure your points aren't slipping and that the point attaching 
> screw isn't stripped.
> 
> I've had a few experiences where something was going on like this but 
> I could never figure out exactly what was going on, or why.
> 
>> The distributor clamp I can repair and keep it with the spare
>> distributor. I'll keep you posted. The car would run well (save for
>> poor mileage) for a short while then bog down with little or no power.
>> A retime would cure that but briefly. 
> 
> Make sure you use a dwell meter rather than just a feeler gauge. The 
> dwell meter gives you a more accurate measure that's taken under 
> operating conditions. Dwell meters are getting hard to find, but 
> there are always a few cheap ones on ebay.
> 
> Set the dwell first, then do the timing.
> 
> 
> 
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