Journey forward to the past Part 2
Purchased new stroboscope checked timing.....Miles and miles out, was a good 2 inches past the "Before " marking on the crank pulley, I am amazed the car had started let alone that I had driven it. Took the beast for a drive and sheer magic ensued, not that there was any thing wrong with the kettering points system that had been there, on a scope it had read 20 KV and looked as good as you could get out the points system.
Pick up seemed a little better low down had a bit more Zip and higher RPM were flawless wit possible a bit more pulling power....However as I had said before there was no perfrmance faults with the points.
On to more significant results.....my hot restart problem seems to be gone!~!!!! this result in no way was due to the pertronix upgrade as the hot restart prob had occured before the electric petrol pump had failed with the pertronix unit in place :? Oh well there can be only one conclusion
Don't put electric fuel pumps under the bonnet
in the process of re running the fuel line to the carb I ran the line directly up from the AC unit thru the engine lifting hook eye and over the inlet manifold and round to the Weber 500 inlet, this takes the fuel line away from the holt exhaust manifold.
Graeme
****EDIT*****
While writing above I had thought about commenting on a slightly elevated temp gauge reading, reading more on the 5 than between the 8 and the 5 where it normally runs....... then it clicked......I had forgot to reconnect the vacum hose to the distributer
, so it was off for another drive ( of course) performance was fractionally better and temp reduced to normal running point
so 2nd conclusion
The Pertronix up grade is very worth while and for the dollars a reasonable expense