THE MAESTRO'S DISTRIBUTOR QUIZ- the Conclusion


     The next day the Maestro took the Devilish Distributor
over to Jay's for his look-see. The Maestro was desperately
seeking solution as to why TWO lobes of the Distributor opened the
points fully, but two others barely moved the points 
at all. Somewhere, there was a "point gap" of, ideally, sixteen to
eighteen-thousandths of an inch missing.

     When the Maestro eyeballed the Distributor's Cam with his UN-aided Eye 
(glasses off), he found no evidence of a "pass" having been worn
through the Mountain of the lobes.

     Jay was interested enough in the cause to
get out his Dial Indicator with the Magnetic Base which he attached to the 
Distributor's convenient Cast Iron body (try THAT on an .031's Aluminm Body).

     He placed the dial indicator on the circular part of the shaft
where the rotor seats. And rotated the shaft. 

     The Dial Indicator showed .020" variation! 

     Twenty Thousandths runout is enough to open the points on one side
of the Distributor to .016"-.018" but NOT move the points on the 
other side a'tall.

     Wonder how that happened, thought the Maestro. Maybe a whack from
a hammer during a "rebuild". Or a drop onto a concrete floor?

     So, you might want to add Bending, Twisting, Dropping to the things
on your Checklist that you DON'T want to do during a Distributor overhaul!

     And:

KEEP THE 356 FAITH!

The Maestro