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Timing mark moved? Shows if you use cyl #2?
Totally stock '81, ecm works, no codes, E4ME carb. Complete tune up. Runs pretty well, but I read that the timing can be advanced from std 6 to 10 - 12 BTDC.
So I go for a ride, get it up to temp. Shut it off, hook up my light to cyl #1, unplug the 4 wire plug. Fire it up, and no mark can be seen, even though I marked it nicely on the balancer so I could see it. Cleaned off the gauge so I could read the degrees as well. WTF? Engine idling nice, runs very smooth all the way up. So I put the induction wire on #2 wire, and there is my mark! :crazy2: So I keep the light on, and turn the dist....I can turn it clockwise and the engine begines to stumble, turn it counterclockwise and the idle goes up, to a point and then starts to stumble again; if I leave it at the highest idle rpm point, my light says 11 BTDC. Has my balancer rubber gone and this is why I am seeing this? I plug the 4 wire back in, and it starts and runs just fine....have not road tested it yet, it started to rain, and car is too clean for that. Perhaps tomorrow... Any opinions? |
Do you mean that you connected to the plug beside #1? If so that is #3. Are the wires going from the plugs to the correct place on the distributor? It is possible that when you connect to #3 that it is getting its spark from #1 on the distributor.
Check your wiring to be sure. |
I'll vote for balancer rubber.
What you describe happend to me while drag racing in the 80s so I timed it by ear for that meet. Then the outer ring fell off...lucky i had a balancer shield or it may have lodged in someones head. |
Bad balancer (elastomer disintegrated) or the wires on the distributor have been re-clocked.
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