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Carbon build up inside the points cover
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:33 pm
by Whit
Anyone have any idea how a thick glob of carbon gets inside the points cover. Trying to attach the URL for the picture but not sure it is going to work. //Pat
http://www5.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumb ... =snapfish/
Re: Carbon build up inside the points cover
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:44 pm
by Whit
Re: Carbon build up inside the points cover
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:00 pm
by Coyote
I am 99% certain that the covers were originally made with an insulator. That's what's left of it. Not hard like carbon --- more of a gooey texture?
Re: Carbon build up inside the points cover
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:44 pm
by GT750Battleship

Hi,it's the same stuff they use in car bodies,a sound deadner,I was wondering whether I still need it ? as the points have gone...so no more noise with the electronic ignition now fitted

Re: Carbon build up inside the points cover
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:59 pm
by tz375
Coyote is right on the money. They come with a circle of sound deadener which is attached with a thick bitumastic glue and over time the insulator cracks up and falls of or turns to goo. It has not real purpose
Re: Carbon build up inside the points cover
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:08 am
by Fritz500
It's either the remains of a dead rat or the bitumen like insulation that I recall mine had...
Geoff