Re: [T3] I'm about to give up.

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

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.
 
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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