Timing today
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Racer
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From: Glasgow, Scotland
Timing today
I had my timing light out today, I was following Lars papers on timing, I took the vac pipe of the vacuum advance canister on the distributor, and pluged that pipe up, but do I plug up the inlet into the canister??
I got the initial timing set to 12 degrees, when I went to look at centrifugal advance, set the timing light to 36 degrees, rev the engine, even at very high rpm, the line wasnt coming at way near the O marker, so I need to sort distributor weights/springs etc, is that correct?
Is it just as easy to buy a new distributor??
Dave
I got the initial timing set to 12 degrees, when I went to look at centrifugal advance, set the timing light to 36 degrees, rev the engine, even at very high rpm, the line wasnt coming at way near the O marker, so I need to sort distributor weights/springs etc, is that correct?
Is it just as easy to buy a new distributor??
Dave
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You don't need to plug anything. Just yank the vacuum line off the vacuum advance control unit on the distributor.
Springs won't change the length of your advance curve. initial timing of 12 degrees isn't much. Just advance your timing to get 36 total once the timing pegs out. With stock springs in place, you will probably need to rev it up into the 4000-rpm range unless you remove one of the springs during the checking.
Lars
Springs won't change the length of your advance curve. initial timing of 12 degrees isn't much. Just advance your timing to get 36 total once the timing pegs out. With stock springs in place, you will probably need to rev it up into the 4000-rpm range unless you remove one of the springs during the checking.
Lars
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Racer
Joined: Jul 2007
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From: Glasgow, Scotland
You don't need to plug anything. Just yank the vacuum line off the vacuum advance control unit on the distributor.
Springs won't change the length of your advance curve. initial timing of 12 degrees isn't much. Just advance your timing to get 36 total once the timing pegs out. With stock springs in place, you will probably need to rev it up into the 4000-rpm range unless you remove one of the springs during the checking.
Lars
Springs won't change the length of your advance curve. initial timing of 12 degrees isn't much. Just advance your timing to get 36 total once the timing pegs out. With stock springs in place, you will probably need to rev it up into the 4000-rpm range unless you remove one of the springs during the checking.
Lars
Dave
