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Re: distributor help

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Subject: Re: distributor help
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:03:31 -0700
Actually, I don't think the adjustment range on those slotted holes is very
much, probably less than the vernier adjustment on the early distributor.
Put it smack in the middle and you can't be too far wrong.

on 4/12/04 7:38 PM, MGBnutt@aol.com at MGBnutt@aol.com wrote:

> Yes, i did make a mark on the distributor and the clamp, but not on the clamp
> and the block.  I removed the clamp to clean the dirt and rust off without
> realizing the mounting holes were elongated, so I suppose I could be quite a
> few 
> degrees out.  Guess I'll have to go back to square one and find TDC, etc.
> 
> donny v
> 1978 MGB
> 
> In a message dated 4/12/2004 1:43:45 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> mvheim@studiolimage.com writes:
> Hint for future situations -- before removing distributor, scribe matching
> lines on the distributor base and the clamp or block (actually both are
> necessary on the B). At least you will be able to pick up where you left
> off.
> 


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires





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