[Mart]

I'm not sure if Ford intended the pre 49 V8 points to be set with feeler gauges. I think they intended them to be set at a dealers on a setting fixture. That said, setting each pair to 15 thou will get the car down the road, and for any non performance application, the average driver would not notice anything wrong.

The next time I use my setting fixture I'll measure the points gaps and report what they are.

For any non performance application, the lumbering old flatty is probably the least finnicky to things like dwell. Advance it until it pings and back it off until it doesn't.

What they don't like is running retarded. I had a French flatty, with a distributor like a 8BA, vac advance only. The vac unit had failed, so I had no advance at all. The first long journey, (actually driving it home) it overheated after about an hour.

Once everything was repaired it would run all day long.

Mart.