Did an older Chev distributor for Terry (SVOPRO)
Kinda oily and dirty when I got it, but I disassembled and cleaned it, replaced the bad limiter bushing re-assembled and curved it on my machine.
The sheet is in Distributor Degrees. Crankshaft degrees are double.
I didn't want the timing to start as early as is it, but then when I used a heavier spring, the all in number moved up too. The Mr Gasket kit isn't nearly as good as the MSD kit is. I wanted to use one of the Mr Gasket weights and after modifying it so I could get the proper swing dimension, I ran it and it seemed pretty good. But, after taking it to 4,000 crankshaft RPM, the weight would stick in the open position because the hole was too large and the weight would twist under the cap...This is something you'd be chasing your tail forever on if you never ran it on a machine. It would stick only sometimes, not every time. If you just touched the rotor, it would click back into place, so you wouldn't be able to see it. It would stay 5 distributor degrees (10 crankshaft) advanced, meaning when you went to start your car, it would probably sound like a dead battery....
Initial timing would be 12 degrees for this car.....
Points were rock solid to 5500+ and the dwell never moved from 30 degrees
A few pics...(oops)
grr
Kinda oily and dirty when I got it, but I disassembled and cleaned it, replaced the bad limiter bushing re-assembled and curved it on my machine.
The sheet is in Distributor Degrees. Crankshaft degrees are double.
I didn't want the timing to start as early as is it, but then when I used a heavier spring, the all in number moved up too. The Mr Gasket kit isn't nearly as good as the MSD kit is. I wanted to use one of the Mr Gasket weights and after modifying it so I could get the proper swing dimension, I ran it and it seemed pretty good. But, after taking it to 4,000 crankshaft RPM, the weight would stick in the open position because the hole was too large and the weight would twist under the cap...This is something you'd be chasing your tail forever on if you never ran it on a machine. It would stick only sometimes, not every time. If you just touched the rotor, it would click back into place, so you wouldn't be able to see it. It would stay 5 distributor degrees (10 crankshaft) advanced, meaning when you went to start your car, it would probably sound like a dead battery....
Initial timing would be 12 degrees for this car.....
Points were rock solid to 5500+ and the dwell never moved from 30 degrees
A few pics...(oops)
grr
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