mojobaby
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Last year sometime, I made a video for Youtube showing the replacement of my vacuum advance unit.
Someone made a comment on it today which I don't think was entirely correct, but I'll leave that for you guys to decide, as I don't know enough about the electrics of a distributor. I think he was talking about the small u-shape retaining clip that holds the points in place.
He might even be a member here, I'm not sure, but I did tell him that I was going to ask someone with more knowledge than me.
So here is his comment and after that the screen shot that I took from the video. If you want to watch the whole video, here is the link:
In the interests of troubleshooting....The double spring clip holding the movable point in place over the two legs is not insulated on the housing side but shorted to ground all through this video. The engine would not have had any spark when trying to re-start.
Someone made a comment on it today which I don't think was entirely correct, but I'll leave that for you guys to decide, as I don't know enough about the electrics of a distributor. I think he was talking about the small u-shape retaining clip that holds the points in place.
He might even be a member here, I'm not sure, but I did tell him that I was going to ask someone with more knowledge than me.
So here is his comment and after that the screen shot that I took from the video. If you want to watch the whole video, here is the link:
In the interests of troubleshooting....The double spring clip holding the movable point in place over the two legs is not insulated on the housing side but shorted to ground all through this video. The engine would not have had any spark when trying to re-start.
