Re: Point Gap Adjustment
You can set point gap with the magneto plate (armature) in any position. When the engine is running, point gap, or dwell has an effect on timing to a certain degree. Timing has no effect on point gap. When you set the point gap, what you are doing is static timing the engine. At the front of the mag. plate, there are two vertical marks about 3/8" apart. On the flywheel there are two vertical marks 180 degrees apart, or one mark for each set of points. Were you to hook a timing light to the engine with it running, you would see the mark on the flywheel fall between the two marks on the mag. plate, this would be optimum timing. You would make this check on both plug wires to check both sets of points. Setting the points with a feeler guage at .020 will put you very close to this ideal setting.
