Thank you Ford Barn

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I got a Model A pick up when I was around 12 years old (well over 40 years ago) as I turned around 16 thoughts of hot rodding it came to mind, fortunately my mother took it away from me and gave it to my granddad, he took exceptional care of it and had a ball with it for a good 40 years. A couple of years ago I got it back as grandad could no longer drive or maintain it, I have been driving it regularly for those two years, reading here at the Ford Barn and gradually getting it back up to snuff, lately I noticed a small loss of power and some missing, I read some posts here, thumbed through a few books, did some trouble shooting and determined it was an electrical problem, yesterday I dove in, I found that the rubbing block on the points was nearly nonexistent, I soon found that the top plate in the distributor was in pretty rough shape, luckily I had a spare. Long story short after two days of cursing, lots of head scratching and several searches of this forum I now know how to time and tune up a model A! What a great feeling of accomplishment, and I couldn't have done it without this forum.