John S's Journal

The new condensers arrived the other day so I decided to take care of some needed maintenance. I had filed the points a week ago and did so with the distributor out of the car. Re-gapped them and then reinstalled the distributor. The weather was nice then so I didn’t bother getting the timing light out. After a couple outings, it started to show signs of not being quite optimal so yesterday, I decided to take advantage of some non-driving weather and do it right.

Checked valve lash, fresh oil and filter, installed the new condenser, reinstalled the distributor, cleaned the plugs, and got the timing light out and hooked up. Unfortunately, the weather has been crummy so I haven’t road tested it yet but it fired right up and idled nicely. Looking forward to the next dry day to see how it responds.