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OLD TIME SPEED TRICKS

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Someone always talks about what we did in the past when working on our cars. I thought it might be amusing to share some-

We use to take the spring arm off the old set of points and add it to a new set with the thought it would allow us more revs without point float. Never proved it worked but you had to watch the gap because the wear block took the abuse.

What did you try?

Ol'ford nutCentral Iowa

56 Vic w/292 & 4 spd.


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