Adrian,
How about trying to set distrib advance at 35 degrees, at the highest
RPM you can get it to run today? Wedge the throttle to 3000 or whatever,
then adjust advance to 35 at that speed. This should accomodate the
weary springs.
Bob
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 20:02:06 -0400 Adrian Jones
<AdrianJones@compuserve.com> writes:
>Message text written by INTERNET:schooler@erols.com
>> if your distributor
>centrifugal advance springs are weak and you tune with a timing light,
>you will have significantly retarded the timing from its normal
>setting.
>And on our old, tired LBCs, weak springs are probably very likely.
><
>
>Bill,
> Good point. The timing marks do advance though when I yank on
>th=
>e
>throttle cable, so I think they are OK. Just for the heck of it, I've
>ju=
>st
>set the timing at idle using the strobe to 30 degrees BTDC. Went out
>for=
> a
>drive. Same problem.
>Thanks anyway, Adrian
>
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