Dwell and point gap are related, and as your points wear, the dwell will
decrease, weakening your spark.
The dwell meter is handy in that you can check your points wear without taking
the dizzy out to check gap.
Set to .16 and then check what the dwell meter says. Make a note of the dwel
setting and then when you check dwell again, and it's changed more than a
couple points, then take out the dizzy and reset the points again....
Or just get a pertronix ignitor module and be done with it.... forever.
:)
Alan
------Original Message------
From: Richard Kahn
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] dwell
Sent: May 13, 2012 09:38
I checked the dwell with two different meters. One read 30 the other 28. Book
says 34. I called Jeff at Advanced Distributor who rebuilt it 2 years ago and
he said not to use a dwell meter because the are all different and not that
accurate. He suggested setting the gap at .016. I did that and the meter
readings moved lower. The engine runs smooth. What gives?
Rich Kahn
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