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Question about 1989 Excel Hatchback

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dwell meter to accomplish this? If not, why? If so, how? Not hardly, A dwell meter measures the saturation period of the ignition coil. It began in the days of distributers and the dwell was expressed

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...dwell meter , a cheap one I bought to tune my car however my car is a 3 cyl and the dwell meter only has readings for 4 and 6 cyl is there some sort of formula i can apply to convert to give me a 3 ...

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need dwell meter setting for 1970 gmc truck 350 cu in engine Why not just use a feeler gauge You got a dwell meter

Question about 1974 Eldorado

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...to set the gap on the points i just put in. I have a dwell meter ready to go. .018"-.022" if memory serves. If you have a dwell meter to dial it in once you get it running 18 -20 will get you ...

dwell meter to 27 degrees. Without a dwell meter you could use a feeler gauge and set them at 20 thousandths of an inch. You'll also have to reset the timing because point dwell changes the timing

Question about 1974 Eldorado

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mt 418 dwell meter instructions automotive dwell tach meter

...dwell meter, start the engine and hook the dwell meter to the coil negative, you should get a reading of 28-32 degrees. The manual method is to put the points on the highest point of the distributor ...

Question about 1974 Eldorado

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Old ford cotina v6 points gap set at .020 " and use a dwell angle meter to fine set to max performance points should be set using a dwell meter as feeler gauges are not that accurate

...dwell meter. If dwell is off, remove the distributor cap and adjust as needed. To set timing, use a timing light and highlight the appropriate mark on the harmonic damper (i.e., 8 degrees BTDC). With ...

...dwell meter, a DMM with duty cycle capability, or an oscilloscope to set the dwell to nominal. My instructor (45 yrs ago) preached not to use a gap gauge between the point contacts but to clean ...

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