Due to a non-starting motor, the first place I was advised to look was
the points. The proper gap is .21mm, or .05 inch.
Here is my distributor, a "nippon denso". The red line shows
where one's screwdriver tip goes, to adjust the points gap.
I
found the bar that gets adjusted to be a bit wiggly - it moves from
side to side as well as in and out. Maybe I need new
points...
Here is the points gap
before the adjustment (too
big)...
...and after. (0.21mm)
If you replace the condensor at the same time you are dealing with the
points, you may find that your condensor is the same functionally
(0.25uf),
but the bracket that bolts to the side of the condensor is
different. Below are pictures of my condensors, old and new, from
the side of
my Nippon-Denso distributor. As you can see, on the old one, the
bracket integrates a hanger for the one of the condorsor's tie-down
clips.
The new one does not. If this is the case, one suggestion (from
a club member) is to hack off the bracket from the old one,
and piggyback it onto the new condensor (use a longer bolt)
