<VV> Points "Arm"

[Dennis Pleau]

You need to use 'Blue Streak' or the good Echline points.  I'm not sure
where you get Blue Streak anymore. In the early 2000s when I was still using
points, you could go into a NAPA store they carried two different points for
a Corvair.  One was about four or five dollars and the others were about
$13.  Quality wise, you really wanted the good ones.  Two or three thousand
miles or 15K and you change them because it is time.  The $13 had the felt
lubricator. 

do

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Matt Nall via VirtualVairs
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 5:54 PM
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Subject: Re: <VV> Points "Arm"




I noticed the part of the point assembly that rubs the distributor shaft is
"nylon" and has "Feathers" on the trailing edge, and that the proper feeler
gauge would not fit between the points without moving the arm. I adjusted
the points and my Vair hums beautifully now. :-) Is 'nylon" a proper
material to use on the points arm? 
I noticed in another vair that the arm was steel and there was an oil
wet"felt" 
pad to lube the shaft/arm surface.


Ralph
69/140/4sp

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I've never seen a Steel "cam follower"


 Nylon is fine!  Originally they used Micarta


You need to put some lube on the lobes!!   That's what the felt was for!  
Cheap points have no felt... so you need to lube the shaft.


Matt Nall
Charleston, Oregon
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