Adjusting points

[inrustwetrust]

Today I tried using a set of dial calipers on the outside of the points to set the gap. It works great!

[Glenn]

I'm thinking a yard stick should get it close enough. I used to just use a matchbook cover. Used the cover also for my security system when parked !

[Paps]

When you used the dial calipers to adjust the points, did you start with the points completely closed ???? and then open them until the calipers read the distance traveled ???

[BONES47FL]

Curious as to the answer to Paps' question, Thanks, Bones

[rousseau]

Today I tried using a set of dial calipers on the outside of the points to set the gap. It works great!

Rube Goldberg comes to mind

[ManPan]

My buddies and I used to put a small piece of cello cig wrapper in between other friends points while they were in the bar.. always good for a few laughs......@ 2a.m.......ahhh the bad ol' days.....

[Rooster]

My buddies and I used to put a small piece of cello cig wrapper in between other friends points while they were in the bar.. always good for a few laughs......@ 2a.m.......ahhh the bad ol' days.....

That's nasty.....

[MeanGene]

And then there's the 'ol lead pencil trick, works best on sixes and eights- and it WILL keep your buddy from driving home drunk. One of our old buds laughed when we gave the bartender his coil wire, just snuck out and pulled a plug wire and stuck it in the coil and drove his Ranger home on 5 cylinders- except he hit a parked car on the way
The next time I got him with the pencil, and fixed it for him later- he never did figure out what I did to it

[Sargehere]

You could just pull up the distributor cover and steal his rotor!

Had a friend, an old time rider, who loved to play jokes on other riders, who told me about the time he took a friend's, a pretty "unmechanical" friend's headlight apart in the parking lot while he was in a bar, and painted his headlight bulb with Mercurochrome!
When his friend came out, started the bike up, and switched on his headlight, he convinced him that he'd seen that before, and it was the result of someone taking off his three battery caps and pouring Mercurochrome into his battery! Boy, was that guy P.O.'d !

[Sargehere]

Oh, and .022" points gap? Two thicknesses of ordinary business card.