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Designer King
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Toronto, ON Canada
Posts: 5,499
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Points about Points...or Check the Easy Stuff First!
I haven't been driving the car as much as usual lately, but I noticed recently that it was getting harder to start, seemed sluggish, and was running hotter than usual.
At first I thought maybe I had a recurrence of my WUR issues from a few years ago. Or maybe the engine was just getting tired. Or maybe (worst of all) Gunter had sneaked into my garage @ night and had sabotaged my car since my engine compartment was so dirty! I mentioned to my long suffering Significant Other (Saint Lesley) that maybe I needed to change my points. Sure enough, next day came popping, banging and tach bouncing--all signs of points not opening. Changed the points, set the dwell to 36, and I now, once again, have a sweet running engine! Easy starting, quick right off idle to redline, and cool running. Looking forward to a nice drive this long weekend. I'm making sure I lock my garage, though, just in case... BTW I may eventually go the Pertronix route. It's just that I've probably got half a dozen sets of points to use up first.
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Paul Yellow 77 Sunroof Coupe/cork interior; 3.2L SS '80 engine/10.3:1/No O2; Carrera Tensioners; 11 Blade Fan; Turbo tie rods; Bilstein B6; 28 tube Cooler; SSI, Dansk; MSD/Blaster; 16x7" Fuchs/205/50 Firestone Firehawk Indy 500s; PCA/UCR, MID9 Never leave well enough alone Last edited by Paulporsche; 08-31-2012 at 08:21 AM.. |
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