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Re: dwell meter settings

To: gardner@lwcomm.com
Subject: Re: dwell meter settings
From: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD)
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 07:35:50 EDT
Hi Scott,
  The meter you have is OK. Read the 8-cylinder scale and double the
reading for a four-cylinder car. 
Bob

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:30:21 +0000 "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
writes:
>
>> At 01:42 pm 8/9/97 EDT, ROBERT G. HOWARD wrote:
>> > Does anyone know how to calculate dwell settings for contact 
>breaker
>> >gap, so we can set the gap more accurately than with feeler gauges?
>> > Thanks for the advice, in advance.
>> >Bob
>> >
>> For what it is worth the factory manual specifies the dwell at 51 
>degrees
>> plus or minus 5 degrees for the MGB.  What's wrong with using that?
>> 
>> Graham
>
>Along these lines, can anyone recommend a good dwell meter that will 
>measure the 60 or so degrees that I'll need to tune a B engine?  I 
>usually just use the tools at the Hobby shop on base, but for some 
>reason, theirs only goes up to forty degrees or so.  Is 60 degrees 
>really high dwell, or do they just have a cheap meter?
>
>Scott Gardner
>gardner@lwcomm.com
>www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
>

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