Timing light hook up
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jul 1999
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From: Clifton Park NY
Re: Timing light hook up (R. Bruno)
R. Bruno,
I usually hook it up to the alternator BAT terminal. On my car there are also two terminals on the firewall, on the driver's side, which can also be used.
-Pedro
I usually hook it up to the alternator BAT terminal. On my car there are also two terminals on the firewall, on the driver's side, which can also be used.
-Pedro
Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2001
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From: (Temporarily) Colorado Springs Colorado
Re: Timing light hook up (Pedro'74)
R. Bruno,
I usually hook it up to the alternator BAT terminal. On my car there are also two terminals on the firewall, on the driver's side, which can also be used.
-Pedro
I usually hook it up to the alternator BAT terminal. On my car there are also two terminals on the firewall, on the driver's side, which can also be used.
-Pedro
Burning Brakes
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 1,183
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From: Des Moines Iowa
Re: Timing light hook up (R. Bruno)
I've seen one forum member who made a pigtail off alternator battery terminal to use for this specific purpose, then put a cover on the exposed terminal end when not being used, pretty sweet setup. I simply use the hood light wire, since I installed a wire which can be disconnected during long periods of hood up, and I just put the female end on my timing light lead, works great.
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Drifting
Joined: Feb 2001
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From: San Francisco, CA
Re: Timing light hook up (R. Bruno)
Wanderer- this is what I was afraid of too after the stories of burnt fusible links and other elec. problems I have read about here. What do the connections you use look like? Do they appear to be stock or are they add-ons?
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2001
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From: Gainesville, Florida
Re: Timing light hook up (R. Bruno)
What do the connections you use look like? Do they appear to be stock or are they add-ons?
Mark
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Racer
Joined: Aug 1999
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From: Mineral Ridge Ohio
Re: Timing light hook up (R. Bruno)
On our '73, I found a junction on some sort of relay or circuit breaker under the lip of the hood opening on the driver side, just ahead of the filler cap for the windshield washer reservoir. I think it is wired directly to the alternator hot lead. It just has the advantage of a little less metal around that can cause a short. I clip the hot lead there, and the ground lead to the alternator bracket, and everything is on the side where I need to stand to check the timing.
