Distributor curve help needed

Yea. That's why its good to do this stuff step by step.
Its not as obvious as it first looks.

Since you changed the black spring for the silver spring, anything was possible.
Sometimes the 'soft' spring has more tension so initially applies more force. The books and magazines never mention that.
Force = spring rate x distance stretched.
I left those two springs in there and bent the tabs in. I noticed that the two pegs that slide in and out of the crossmember are already 1/2 way in the slot. Strange?

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