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Re: timing marks

To: "Moon Lockwood" <moon@sasquatch.com>
Subject: Re: timing marks
From: "John F Sandhoff" <sandhoff@csus.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:52:14 -0800
>   I checked in my distributor and it said 7.5.  Is this a 'recurved'
> distributor?

Yes, it is. Your idle timing (vacuum line disconnected, about 700 rpm)
should be about 16 BTDC. The 7.5 is camshaft degrees, meaning 15
degrees total mechanical advance.

-- John
     John F Sandhoff   sandhoff@csus.edu   Sacramento, CA

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