They sure are! I always wanted one and finally bought this one when it was cheap and nearby. I don’t use it that much but it sure is handy when I need it!
I am thinking about where this Olds distributor will end up...... Thanks for another informative video, I have never seen one of these machines in action.
@@dfb1111 Thanks Dave! To see where that distributor ends up watch the short I posted this morning. Or just stay tuned until I finish editing the 403 video I filmed yesterday 👍
Grab 8 spark plugs. Like 1996 ford 4.9 or the jeep 4.0 with the long extended tip. Use a 14x1.25 tap to thread 8 holes In a piece of aluminum bar stock. Put a wire with a battery cable clamp or a jump start clamp off a dead jump start box attached to the rack of spark plugs. You can use a working jump start box with the rack of spark plugs clamp and the negative jump start clamp both hooked to the distributor housing. Power the hei off the positive jump start cable. Now you will have one heck of a light show. You will want that rack insulated from you touching it. If you hook a timing light to one of the spark plug wires. You can get the timing light to flash. Why spend the time. The rack of spark plugs and the spark plug wires can be moved to engines that only have coils. No distributor to test the individual spark output. Bright blue snappy. Great. Dim orange. Bad. I used to have a 1957 vintage distribut-O-scope. The rack of spark plugs and the 12v power source is how I curved distributors.
you should run the trigger off of the hei module, not the magnetic trigger. Or at least thats the way I do it, then you can check if the module you are using has the variable dwell characteristics of the original modules.
@@KrisKustomPaint how would I do that? Hook up my leads on the other side of the module instead of the side where the green and white wires are? If it’s a better way to do it I’m interested!
No, I meant I like to use ported vacuum so the vacuum advance comes in when you give it some throttle. I only use manifold vacuum for vacuum advance in instances when I feel the engine would benefit from it. Can you post a link to a video of yours where you explain how you set up vacuum advance? I’m always interested to learn a new or better procedure
Thank you for showing this! The old sun machines are awesome pieces of history.
They sure are! I always wanted one and finally bought this one when it was cheap and nearby. I don’t use it that much but it sure is handy when I need it!
Interesting demonstration, and distributor testing & calibrator machine.
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I am thinking about where this Olds distributor will end up......
Thanks for another informative video, I have never seen one of these machines in action.
@@dfb1111 Thanks Dave! To see where that distributor ends up watch the short I posted this morning. Or just stay tuned until I finish editing the 403 video I filmed yesterday 👍
Grab 8 spark plugs. Like 1996 ford 4.9 or the jeep 4.0 with the long extended tip. Use a 14x1.25 tap to thread 8 holes In a piece of aluminum bar stock. Put a wire with a battery cable clamp or a jump start clamp off a dead jump start box attached to the rack of spark plugs.
You can use a working jump start box with the rack of spark plugs clamp and the negative jump start clamp both hooked to the distributor housing.
Power the hei off the positive jump start cable.
Now you will have one heck of a light show. You will want that rack insulated from you touching it.
If you hook a timing light to one of the spark plug wires. You can get the timing light to flash.
Why spend the time. The rack of spark plugs and the spark plug wires can be moved to engines that only have coils. No distributor to test the individual spark output. Bright blue snappy. Great. Dim orange. Bad.
I used to have a 1957 vintage distribut-O-scope.
The rack of spark plugs and the 12v power source is how I curved distributors.
@@waynep343 sounds like a pretty wild idea! I’ve seen some things like that on RUclips
you should run the trigger off of the hei module, not the magnetic trigger. Or at least thats the way I do it, then you can check if the module you are using has the variable dwell characteristics of the original modules.
@@KrisKustomPaint how would I do that? Hook up my leads on the other side of the module instead of the side where the green and white wires are? If it’s a better way to do it I’m interested!
vac hooked to "ported" Did you mean UN ported so it has full travel at idle? I don't do any of my low Cr engines like that.
No, I meant I like to use ported vacuum so the vacuum advance comes in when you give it some throttle. I only use manifold vacuum for vacuum advance in instances when I feel the engine would benefit from it. Can you post a link to a video of yours where you explain how you set up vacuum advance? I’m always interested to learn a new or better procedure
You didnt test at what vac it had, and you didnt test it at diff vac draws.
That’s correct, I didn’t do that.