Topic: How do i hook up a dwell meter?

[hevykevy420]

Ok, i broke down and obtained a dwell/tach meter.

How do i hook it up?  does it hook up to the coil and then just a ground? or do you hook up to points somehow?  if to the coil, which wire?  there seems to be a bunch of wires coming out of the coils.

i've down the feeler gauge, but have no idea how to hook up the dwell meter.

[HondaMan]

Connect the meter's red wire to the points wire, right at the points. The other one goes to the engine case (ground). That's all there is! Be sure to select 4-cylinder mode or double the 8 cylinder reading (not like I didn't in a recent post.     ).

[hevykevy420]

not sure if this is a stupid question - does it matter which end of the points?

Is the connection the same for checking RPMs?

[HondaMan]

Connect to the points where the wires bolt on to them. And, yep, that's the same for checking RPM.