quote: ".My father had to always install new points, condenser,distributor cap and rotor every 6 months or so."My father always replaced plugs twice a year and points and condenser once a year. That"s how a lot of folks did it; it was routine preventative maintanence. In fact, when I was driving my dearly departed "66 Beetle, I replaced plugs every other valve adjustment and points and condenser every fourth time. I drove that car for three years and it literally always started. Not bad for a thirty year old car! "Why would this stuff need to be replaced every 6 months?" It didn"t, really. In most cases it all would have lasted three or four times that long. But if you didn"t want the vehicle to quit on you, you had no way to reliably predict WHEN the points would fail, so you replaced them BEFORE it was likely to happen.
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