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Nov 18, 2017 | 11:56 PM

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69L71

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Distributor rebuild help

I had a post previously about removing a faulty unilite unit and reinstalling points. I've got everything back to normal with new points, condenser, and lead wire. What I'm having problems with is figuring out where the new ground wire goes. It was missing from the unilite retrofit and all the pictures and fiiguures I've found on the internet are lame.

Can anyone show me a good photo or diagram where it goes?

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Nov 19, 2017 | 06:01 AM

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I don't remember ever seeing a ground wire. points and condenser are screwed to distrib base which is grounded to the block.

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Nov 19, 2017 | 08:52 AM

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I had a post previously about removing a faulty unilite unit and reinstalling points. I've got everything back to normal with new points, condenser, and lead wire. What I'm having problems with is figuring out where the new ground wire goes. It was missing from the unilite retrofit and all the pictures and fiiguures I've found on the internet are lame.

Can anyone show me a good photo or diagram where it goes?

small ground wire soldered to bottom of points plate to one of the vacuum advance screws

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Nov 19, 2017 | 10:21 AM

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Photo shown also has one of my advance limiters installed, but the ground wire installation is correct.

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Nov 19, 2017 | 05:38 PM

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ok, points plate moves with vac advance, so ground thru greasy bushing kinda iffy. I am too used to boats.

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Nov 20, 2017 | 01:10 PM

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Canister is is mounted to the distributor housing so ground is solid - not iffy at all.

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Nov 20, 2017 | 02:01 PM

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Perfect.
Thanks!

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