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Topic: dwell for wd

Posted By: randy
Subject: dwell for wd
Date Posted: 23 May 2010 at 8:47am

saw a post about points coming loose and wondered what the dwell angle is for a wd? its been a long time since school and forgot a lot, or most of the info on dwell. bought a penske dwell meter from a guy who didnt know what is was and had to try to explain what is was to him. anyway i bought it for the tac and had to get books out to refersh myself. any help would be great. btw, my points loosened up on my wd, wich stsrted the whole dwell thing

randy

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Posted By: mlpankey
Date Posted: 23 May 2010 at 1:17pm

http://autorepair.about.com/library/a/1h/bl483h.htm - http://autorepair.about.com/library/a/1h/bl483h.htm

http://www.familycar.com/classroom/ignition.htm - http://www.familycar.com/classroom/ignition.htm

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Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 23 May 2010 at 2:37pm

Dwell adjustment is for those distributors made impossible to set the point gap. Set the point gap to specifications, then read the dwell on your dwell meter. Its probably about half the time, 90 crank degrees on a four cylinder engine. If you see dwell wandering about in value, then you need to pay attention to the shaft bushing in the distributor.

Gerald J.