Thread: #3 Plug Arcing
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Old 09-15-2014, 10:38 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by gnormoyle View Post
Thanks for the responses. I think I solved the problem. The rotor to distributor housing was all over the place and actually kissing the #3 electrode. I bent the rotor electrode to increase the clearance on #3 to .035" and filed the rest down to .035". Set the points to .022" and retimed. Swapped the plugs around and re-gapped to .035"
Runs good and no random sparks now. I love this forum
make sure your distributor shaft bushing is tight.. a bad bushing can cause erratic point and rotor gap...
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