Do you have any suggestions on a descent dwell meter that won’t break the bank. I really want to Learn how to use one.Vacuum gauge method is for non computer controlled carbs. For computer controlled carbs you must use a analog dwell meter.
Nobody seems to make analog dwell meters anymore. About any brand is good asvused is the only option now.Do you have any suggestions on a descent dwell meter that won’t break the bank. I really want to Learn how to use one.
I found this one for $25. I like that it still has a box. What do you think?Nobody seems to make analog dwell meters anymore. About any brand is good asvused is the only option now.
Thank you for this. I got a carb out of a salvage yard to practice on. I actually scored a unmolested carb that was in good shape. Al the plugs were still there and rivets. I thought I would practice on one before I went to town on the carb still on my car. After I got the plugs out I put notches in them to make it easier to use a screw driver. I had to order a tool to adjust the TPS and a dwell meter. I tried adjusting the mixture screws on the old carb and you are right. I don’t like making excuses but I got paralyzed a few years and it is hard to reach things. Good thing I’m 6’3” well used to be lol. I still have long arms and that helps. What I’m getting at is I like your idea about getting two tools on each screw. I appreciate your ideas and encouragement. I need it lolThe difficulty for your '84, like my '83, is that you're supposed to do a measured base adjustment of the air bleed (fairly easy), then a live adjustment of the mixture screws with the dwell meter (not so easy).
On the 3.8L Buick there are obstructions in the way of good access to the mixture screws.
You can get tools with long flexible shafts and "double-D" sockets to turn the screws. I found the best approach was to have 2 of the tools and install them both, one on each screw, snaked around and through things, before even starting the motor, with the handles wedged where convenient to prevent things flying around once the motor starts. It's still not the easiest job in the world, though. The sockets can get dislodged from the screws fairly easy, and even when they don't it takes patience just eyeballing the situation and turning them. More than once I dropped the driver's side tool handle and it bounced violently off the smog pump belt.
I also tried using a tiny 1/4" ratchet with a socket to hold a "double-D" socket, but this proved so difficult that I went with the method just described instead.
Just thought I'd offer some encouragement.
But seriously, I do believe this is substantially more difficult for the little crammed-together Buick than for, say, Clone's SBC and Qjet. It's doable, I've done it, but that's the best I can say for it.
And for that very reason, if you can even find a shop willing to do this, they would be unlikely to do it properly.
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