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Old 09-27-2021, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Jay S View Post
Could be the point contacts are burnt. The over the counter points that are sold these days burn easily, especially when the ballast resistor sends to much voltage to them. The OEM sets in the past were much better, but too much voltage would kill them fairly quickly to. Usually points start missing at the higher rpms, and as the problem gets worse it starts to run rough at lower rpms to.
I asked my buddy at the speed shop and he said that "Points are china junk these days". Are there better quality points available? I sent this distributor out be completely rebuilt, but I have no idea of the quality of the parts used to rebuild it,

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