Ok... Electrical On A Galaxie 500 3.14159

Originally Posted by ShotRod64

You need to get on ebay and get you a Shop Manual like this. Here's a couple.
eBay Motors: 1964 Ford Galaxie Monterey Shop Service Repair Manual (item 300186757318 end time Jan-07-08 08:50:10 PST)

eBay Motors: 1964 Ford & Mercury Shop Manual (item 140196102337 end time Jan-12-08 13:30:04 PST)

HEY Deb... I haven't accessed these URLs yet, but I will.

There is a couple other places that sell these I just can't think of the websites now and they have them on CD/DVD. I prefer the book, the CDs are just too difficult to maneuver IMO. Easier to look through a book. But with a cd you can print out the page and not mess up the book.

I'm going to do something like this. I mean, if I'm going to get serious about the old 3.14159, I've got to do this ASAP.

It sounds better than the other name but the other I'm getting used to. LOL Besides, it's your car, call it what you wish.

I was thinking that I could letter "3.14159" on it somewhere, and when people asked what that meant, I could tell them that it was my 1/4 mile ET! John Force, eat your heart out!

You know Deb, if this resto isn't just a pipe dream... I'd like to take the totally resto-ed 3.14159 to a drag strip, and see what it would do. If nothing else, it would be an attention getter.

Anyway thanks for the links.

Hope you are well.

Regards

JCAllison

Originally Posted by deadhorse

im done with you ----

Hey DeadHorse, did I somehow offend you? It wasn't my intention. If I have, can you find it in your heart to forgive me?

Regards

JCAllison

"Use a remote starter to crank the engine while you set the points. Remmber to install the rotor, fire up the engine and set the timing with the distributor removed and plugged with a golf tee or a small bolt. Final timing adjustment depends on octane, condition of engine, load, etc."

Yikes!!!!! If you can start the engine without a distributor, you may be onto something.

My mistake, set the timing with the distributor vacuum line removed and plugged and plugged with a god tee or a small bolt.

Originally Posted by JCAllison

Hey DeadHorse, did I somehow offend you? It wasn't my intention. If I have, can you find it in your heart to forgive me?

Regards

JCAllison

He's just a grumpy old fart that climbs out from under his rock every so often to stir crap up....

Originally Posted by dadurweird

Yikes!!!!! If you can start the engine without a distributor, you may be onto something.

Kinda knew what you meant. But on the other hand, if the shoe was on the other foot, I thought that you might have been a sock-puppet of DeadHorse's and was trying to get even with me for whatever he thinks I've done to offend him! I mean: "I've NEVER lied to him. I MAY have kidded him a little, but never outright LIED to him." (Lyndon B. Johnson)

My mistake, set the timing with the distributor vacuum line removed and plugged and plugged with a god tee or a small bolt.

Do you think that maybe I could get the "god tee" from Mr. Kultulz? Actually Dadurweird, I knew what you mean, but I just couldn't resist.

Well, just had a really close call. I turned off of Hwy 190, going North on FM (Farm to Market) Road 3459. There's a little hollow there, and so when I got to the edge of it, I showered down on the 3.14159 in second gear, and when I got to the bottom of the hollow, I let up on the accelerator, and coasted up the other side of the hollow. And about 100 yards from the top of the other side of the hollow was sitting an Onalaska Police Cruiser. And here I am this little old white bearded fart in an old Ford just putting by. Whew!!!

Had just been to the auto parts store, where I got a piece of the kind of hose that comes from the CCV tube and goes to the carburetor.

Put it on in the parking lot of the auto parts store. Would you believe no more "Woooooooo"-ing?

BTW, what in the hell is "dwell" anyway? I'm going to do what you said to do, and I'll let you know how it comes out.

Hope you are well.

Regards

JCAllison

dwell is basically the size of the gap between the points

Originally Posted by norcal500

He's just a grumpy old fart that climbs out from under his rock every so often to stir crap up....

Well, I went back to see what I might have said to make him want to "shun" me. I didn't see anything that would piss ME off, so maybe he's just a really sensitive kind of guy, you know what I mean? He really didn't strike me as a bad sort. Maybe he was just having a "mood" or something. I'll try to be more circumspect from now on.

Hope you are well.

Regards,

JCAllison

Originally Posted by norcal500

dwell is basically the size of the gap between the points

Well, then would it be proper to say that my point dwell is 0.015?

How come in the Chilton Manual dwell is expressed in degrees?

Just thinking about it, let me just take a guess here. The time that it takes for the points to go from zero to 0.015, and back to zero again, is the same amount of time that the engine takes to turn turned 27 degrees?

BTW, on the rotor in the distributor, the part from which the electrical spark jumps to the contact to which the spark plug lead is connected is a good 1/2" long. Is THAT normal?

Regards,

JCAllison

true I should have elaborated a bit. Dwell has to do with the degrees that the cam rotates while the point gap in closed. The size of the gap in your points determine the dwell angle.

Originally Posted by norcal500

He's just a grumpy old fart that climbs out from under his rock every so often to stir crap up....

I think he felt like he was saying the same thing over and over and maybe JC was also doing the same and a grump bug bit him.
Who knows, but Norcal thanks for the laugh this morning! LOL