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scooder · 02-15-2014, 05:33 AM

How's this, turn up a disc that is top hat shaped in profile, the od of this fits snug in the cap picking up on the bit that the distributor rim fits, with the top of the hat inside the cap. This has a centre hole that you could slip a sharpie through to mark the center point. Whip the turned piece out, and measure from this sharpie Mark out to the contacts? As I type this, I think you could do the same using dividers from the cap mounting ring to the find the center of the cap.
These are just out loud thunks, not actual ways to do it, might spark a good idea from someone else?

If we cam plot the center, and go from there, we can trim the terminals in the cap easily for clearance, which is better than shortening the rotor. If the rotor is shortened to clear the close contacts, it will get further away from the others, this will create resistance on the further away ones.
Just ideas
Martin.

02-15-2014, 05:33 AM	#11
scooder Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 2,593	Re: crab- rotor clearance to-cap termanal How's this, turn up a disc that is top hat shaped in profile, the od of this fits snug in the cap picking up on the bit that the distributor rim fits, with the top of the hat inside the cap. This has a centre hole that you could slip a sharpie through to mark the center point. Whip the turned piece out, and measure from this sharpie Mark out to the contacts? As I type this, I think you could do the same using dividers from the cap mounting ring to the find the center of the cap. These are just out loud thunks, not actual ways to do it, might spark a good idea from someone else? If we cam plot the center, and go from there, we can trim the terminals in the cap easily for clearance, which is better than shortening the rotor. If the rotor is shortened to clear the close contacts, it will get further away from the others, this will create resistance on the further away ones. Just ideas Martin.