One thing that did arrive in the post this week was a pair of lockwire pliers, which will undoubtedly be useful for lots of things but their first outing is to replace the rubber O-rings used to lock the advance on the distributor. I never liked the rubber rings – they seemed generic, stretchy and not the right size. That’s not based on science and it’s not knocking Aldon, it’s just…
Okay, first up the money shot, so you can see that it works, then I’ll circle back and set out how I got there To set the scene, that’s my bog-standard 2.0 Pinto with an Aldon Amethyst unit (resting on the heater bowl) effectively inserted between the distributor and the coil, running a user-definable ignition advance curve with vacuum advance. I’ll be completely upfront, it’s no Megajolt/Megasquirt/1-2-3/whatever, as it only does ignition advance based…