Subject: Re: fixed!
Author: Ian Adkins
Date: Aug 28, 2000, 7:00 PM
Post ID: 1702138069
Good stuff Mike! Glad to hear that you are on your way to a smooth running
bird. Let us know the progress of the recovery.
How much wider was the gap getting? I thought that when you rotated the
distributor shaft to adjust the timing you would rotate the whole point
assembly. That means that the gap should not change once you set it?
I always thought that the procedure would be to set the point gap first and
then adjust the timing. I did it that way on my Ambo. Should I go back now
and remeasure/adjust the point gap?
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Jones <mjon-@yahoo.com>
To: Loopfram-@topica.com <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Date: August 28, 2000 9:27 PM
Subject: fixed!
| She runs again! Thanks to everyone for your help. It seems to have been a combination of bad condensor and too wide point gap (plus a little of the dirty distributor problem, perhaps). How can the gap widen, BTW? The point screw was tight, and wear on the point block would tighten the gap, right? Wo anyway, I took the distributor all apart and cleaned it up real well, adjusted the gap (and timing, now that that was thrown off), and she runs much better, though not quite 100%. The points fire off a hugh spark, so I will replace that, and then perhaps we will be back to 100%. It sure is a lot nicer to work on the old bird then on the newer bikes I've had! -Mike (69 Ambo) |