Re: The breaker points saga continues and cam play

[jeffersonsharp]

Amuller, I didn’t see your first post before my last, good info there. As far as bending the points to get them parallel, it seems that can only be done vertically. I was having contact on the edge neerest the outside of the mag plate with a slight gap at the inside if that makes sense. The Sierra points would barely make contact even at the bottom of the cam and adjustment cam screw turned fully closed. It’s hard to break contact at the timing marks when you can hardly make contact at all. The upshot is the points could not be adjusted far enough to not break way early (I.e. Point gap way to large at top of cam and fully closed on adjuster cam screw). This was both sets of points that I installed and I have no reason to believe it wouldn’t be the other two still in the package. The problem seems to have been just sloppy tolerances. I’m not sure what kind of abrasive was on the sand paper I was using it was 400 grit and dark grey/black. I think I read somewhere that you should never use emery cloth on points as it contains carbon and will lead to pitting but I guess the carbon in silicon carbide is probably chemically bound so as not to cause a problem. I was worried my paper might be emery after reading that. Anyway I think I have it licked now. Thanks again.