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Re: timing questions on Midget

To: BOB HILL <oldcars@newt.vallnet.com>
Subject: Re: timing questions on Midget
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 01:01:51 -0500
BOB HILL wrote:
> 
> I tried this and it still didn't work.  What I am afraid happened is that
> I let the distributor slip while my wife was cranking the car and have it
> bad out of time.  Not sure of this but since it was at least attempting to
> start earlier, I am wondering if that happened or if there is some other
> problem that I am experiencing.  It is acting as if I am getting no spark
> but I checked and there is a fairly good spark and it is getting fuel so
> it seems tha tit shoudl start but doesn't.  Just makes me wonder if I let
> it get "way" out of time and if so, how to recover.

  Was anything moved either before or since the problem
existed? Such as plug wires removed and replaced possibly
wrongly?

  If everything is as it was, then rotating should find
a place where it will fire.
  
  How are you testing for spark?

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
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