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On 6 May 2001, at 14:14, Mark Healey wrote: > I gotta rant here. Feeler guages have to be the most difficult tool > to use, and muirs descriptions aren't much help. How much friction > are you supposed to feel when they go through? How do you know you > don't have it slightly twisted or bent thus distorting the > measurement. Hell, with the damn points you are dealing with a > spring. AAAAHHH!!!!. This method of setting the points is the low-tech way, and it usually works. You will eventually learn to tell the difference between loose (too much gap), medium (exactly the right gap), and tight (too little gap). Actually the only easy distinction is between the first and last conditions. It is much easier and accurate to buy a dwell meter and set using that. Dwell meters may be hard to find these days, but a decent one is worth the effort to seek out. It will also include a tach so you can read and set your idle RPM. The real saving grace here is that the dwell is pretty forgiving so you can set it at almost anything close and then set the timing. Still, using a dwell meter and a timing light to set the points and the timing are far more accurate. Plus, the timing light lets you watch and verify that other things are working correctly since you can actually watch the advance mechanisms do their thing and this will give you an understanding of what they do and how they work. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe