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Brad, thanks for your consideration in sending this directly to me, but I'm posting this back to the list, because I think the topic is appropriate to the whole group.
On 6 Jun 2006 at 23:30, Brad Mularcik wrote:
The distributor that I bought last year was from you. I believe that it
was newly rebuilt by you, so what else could cause me to go thru a set of
points so quickly?
It depends on which part of the points wears out.
If the rubbing block keeps wearing down, then this is due to a rough cam, which I should have fixed, or because you haven't kept the cam lubricated. Old cam lube should be cleaned off and replaced at every tuneup. The cams get worn and rough over time due to lack of lubrication and because of old lube which gets loaded with grit and left in place. When you're cleaning off old lube, be sure to clean the old dirty lube off the rubbing block, too.
If the electrical contacts are burning away quickly, then this is probably due to using some kind of "high performance" coil. Unless you spend a significant amount of time above 5000 RPM, switching back to a stock coil will give much longer life and no loss of performance. It's also possible that a non-stock condensor could cause this.
I generally recommend that people simply run stock Bosch ignition parts (and NOT the Bosch blue coil.) These give the best results possible.
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