How to Set Your Classic's Points

With the points in the condenser fastened roughly in place. What we want to do now is set the gap of the points. And we do this by turning the engine until the lobe of the cam, that's one of the square corners of it, is holding the points open. So until the lobe of the cam is right against the little, what we call the little heel of the points, which is here. So the easiest way to do this is to turn the engine, tap that round until the lobe of cam is right on the heel, like so. What we do then, is we move the points base plate around. This is why I said don't completely tighten the screws. If you every watch me moving that around, you'll see the gap in the points opening and closing.