At 04:13 PM 3/23/2009, Jonathan Poole wrote:
>under the distributor cap and the point contact blocks have been wearing
>very fast.  I use a dwell meter to set the point gap and frequently

If the play in the shaft isn't too bad, my uneducated/untried
suggestion would be to clean the cam lobes and then burnish them to
mirror finish with a strip of oiled crocus cloth -- it's very soft as
abrasives go (it's basically rust...) and quickly wears in to a very
fine state.  You can either saw the strip back and forth or spin the
shaft and hold the cloth steady in tension.  3M supplies the stuff to
FLAPS, 100 inches or some such in a little box.  Lovely stuff, very
unaggressive.

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David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"