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There are two ways to do it: the cheap way and the right way.The cheap way is strictly with feeler gauges. You remove the distributor cap and rotor, rotate the engine until the points are all the way open, loosen the little screw holding the points in, gap the points to 0.016" and put the car back together.

The right way also requires a dwell-tach. After you set the gap to .016, hook up the dwell-tach, put it in four cylinder mode, and start the engine. Put the instrument on TACH and adjust idle to 1500 rpm. Then put it on DWELL - the length of time, in degrees, the points are open. The dwell should be 50 degrees plus or minus two. If it's too short, the points are too far closed; if too long, they're too far open.

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