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RE: Points Grease


>To my best recollection, the Bosch points never had such a collar
>and none was ever necessary. The real culprit here is dirty grease
>on the dist cam which causes wear of the cam. This then causes
>the rubbing block on the points to wear out quickly.

Well, I was just assuming the old set that had a collar was Bosch, but I
don't know for sure.

>I clean up the cams when I rebuild a dist. Whenever I do a tune up I
>clean off all the old grease and replace it with clean grease. If you
>do this your cam should last almost forever.

I always clean the grease off the cam and re-lube anytime I'm in the dist.
I use the white general purpose Lithium grease.  Do others have a better
recommendation?

In reference to my original problem, the grease was fine on the cam (it had
only been in there for few weeks).  I thought later, that maybe the points
weren't fully down when I put them in.  That's the only other thing that I
could come up with.

Craig

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! Craig Woolston             !
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