dwell meter

I need to chesck the dwell on my 71 skylark. I have an older dwell meter that works, but no directions. How do I hook it up to check the dwell?? Please help??

 

I've got a dwell meter with one green wire and one black wire but no power connector. Green to coil "-" and black to ground. Workee good.

C.J.

 

Thanks for the help!!

Thanks for the help

 

My dwell meter has instructions but it doesn't tell me what numbers I need. What should the numbers be for a 72 455?

 

28-32

Shoot for 30*

 

And that should be 30 with the car running warm at idle, right?
Right now mine is running 40 to 45.

 

Dwell

Dwell is the number of degrees out of 360 that your points are closed. It is an inverse reading so the higher the number the closer the point gap. As the block that rides on the distributor cam wears the number goes up. So your points are set too close. You gotta be getting old to remember that sort of crap! ou:

 

You gotta be REALLY old to have known it but can't remember! That's why I went to an HEI...kept forgetting how to do it. o No:

C.J.