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| | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 175 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 175 | On my trucks I need to either find the tool or ask someone how to make one for the points adjustment on the distributors on 60's GM's | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,772 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,772 | Are you referring to the points with the adjusting screw that's accessed through a small window in the side of the distributor cap? It's nothing more complicated that a 1/8" Allen wrench. There is a tool that includes a flexible cable with an Allen wrench attached to the end of it that gives you some more working room. Any LGS should have one in the specialty tool section, or be able to order one on short notice. A quick no-dwell-meter adjustment on the V-8 models is to turn the adjuster clockwise until the engine misses or stalls, then back off exactly 1/2 turn. You'll have 30 degrees of dwell at that spot.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | What year and engine? If by any chance you are referring to this 53-63 235/261 tool ( Pic 1 & Pic 2), they used to be readily available at NAPA, etc. You can make a tool by cutting a notch in the center of a screwdriver blade. The same tool was probably also used on some GMC straight-sixes into the early 60s? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,772 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,772 | There's also a double-ended tool with the spanner wrench like the pic you just posted on one end, and an 11/32" nut spinner on the other end. It's used to tighten the post nut that attaches the point spring, and then the nut that secures the primary wire to the distributor from the coil (-) terminal.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 175 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 175 | yes I need the tool that tclederman had pictured in his post, I will try my NAPA for one, thank you | | |
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