Interesting thread. I agree that oil and oil filters contribute the lions share of the difference in longevity but this was about points.
I can't see where properly maintained points would be a factor but there was the rub. Maintained.
What happens when the timing is off from worn out points (you know, the pitted been way to long kind you might of found in your engine that first meeting under the black berries) and maybe some valve lash off from similar neglect and the kid hops in playing Parnelli Jones? (Not that that would ever happen to anyone here...)
How much damage gets done on the first fifteen hundred miles
past change time?
I'm just asking cause Denny threw it out and I can't see much difference other than one needs tinkered with regularly and one is a bit of a gamble as far as replacement cost may go, so I was looking for something to REALLY justify one or the other. Cause as I see it it comes down to one's personality type as much as anything else.
One guy tinkers while another guy drives then when the tinker guy is out driving he stops to help the guy who was driving when he breaks down. Oh Wait. That was back in the day...
(For full transparency I run Pertronix with a points back up)
