Distributor E Clips
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Yeah, they mostly do. Your recurve kit should have come with various sizes of bushings but if not you may have to carefully shave down the ones that fit to get them to the correct height. Be very careful when attempting to installl those cute little E-rings, they like to snap back and then go hide. Also make sure you have them in from the correct side as some of them come with shoulders and that flat face has to be between the weight and the base of the pin
NIck
NIck
Thanks Nick. I found a source that indicates they do NOT go back on. I was wondering this as A. modifying the bushing could cause it to have unnecessary friction and B. The spring will keep the weights down anyways. I decided to not try and modify the bushings, and left the clips off of the weight pins. I did put the clips back over the center plate.
Knew that the centre cam had them clipped in place. The advance weights typically don't but there is always that one exception that pops up. The only thing to be careful with is that aftermarket weight kits are not cut and shaped to perfectly mimic the factory versions. The curves and ramps they come with are much more generic and less finished if you compare them. Where the kits become useful is that they tend to come with multiple pairs of springs, usually classed as "heavy", "medium", and "light" and they are colored to be distinctive as well. You can elect to keep the stock center plate and weights but use the aftermarket springs to "tune" the point at which the distributor weights start to open.
The other thing is that those stock weight sets come with numbers stamped both into them and into the centre plate. If you check around at a swap meet, you can find cores that have the weights still installed but the numbers will be different You'd need a drug scale to check the difference in them but by the numbers they can vary in weight. With them you have to score the centre plate as well as they are matched set and mixiing and matching weights to centre plates can prove "interesting". Done right, a set of heavy advance weights mated to a set of light springs can bring your advance in quicker; the lighter weights would be a little slower and there is a whole range of variables in the middle. The best distributor tuners used to use the old Sun Distributor machines and literally build and test combination after combination to get what they wanted. Call it dyno tuning for Distributors. With systems like an MSD box that is all done by the CPU and resident software and messing with the weights isn't necessary; you'd likley find that they aren't even resident any more.
Progress?????
Nick
The other thing is that those stock weight sets come with numbers stamped both into them and into the centre plate. If you check around at a swap meet, you can find cores that have the weights still installed but the numbers will be different You'd need a drug scale to check the difference in them but by the numbers they can vary in weight. With them you have to score the centre plate as well as they are matched set and mixiing and matching weights to centre plates can prove "interesting". Done right, a set of heavy advance weights mated to a set of light springs can bring your advance in quicker; the lighter weights would be a little slower and there is a whole range of variables in the middle. The best distributor tuners used to use the old Sun Distributor machines and literally build and test combination after combination to get what they wanted. Call it dyno tuning for Distributors. With systems like an MSD box that is all done by the CPU and resident software and messing with the weights isn't necessary; you'd likley find that they aren't even resident any more.
Progress?????
Nick
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