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RE: Timing the '72

To: "'William Elliott'" <CN=William.Elliott/OU=Corporate/O=MEI#064#MMS%lngw@wtgw.corp.mei.com>, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: Timing the '72
From: Jeff Zurschmeide <jzurschm@etec.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:36:32 -0700
Cc: Jeff Zurschmeide <jzurschm@etec.com>, chuckc@ibm.net
Reply-to: Jeff Zurschmeide <jzurschm@etec.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
No problem, Bill! 

The best way to deal with finding the full advance is not a degree wheel
or marking the pulley,
but to find, borrow, or otherwise obtain a timing light with an advance
dial on the light. Dial 
in the advance you want, rev 'er up, then set timing to the TDC mark.
These lights run about
$40 at Sears.  

In a larger sense, about tools, I'm a big believer in the Bubba Ring
concept (from the book "Old
Tractors and the Men Who Love Them") - specifically, find a few friends
you trust and one person
buys the fancy timing light, another buys the colortune kit, and a third
buys the syncrometer or 
uni-syn - and so on. No sense in having a twice-yearly tool around
*every* garage.

JZ



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