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1. Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Chuck Ciaffone <chuckc@ibm.net>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:24:19 -0400; It happens every time I tune my '72. I set the timing, using a timing lite, to about 10 degrees advance with the vacuum advance disconnected and plugged. It runs OK. Then I start turning the dizzy fo; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00888.html (8,075 bytes)
2. RE: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Jeff Zurschmeide <jzurschm@etec.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:50:29 -0700; When you say it "runs better" - do you mean at idle or throughout the It's not uncommon for a car to idle smoother with a little advance beyond spec, but then the advance is too far when the car's at; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00892.html (9,877 bytes)
3. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Chuck Ciaffone <chuckc@ibm.net>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:22:53 -0400; Mostly it runs better on the road "at (laugh) speed" if I set the advance further ahead than the 10 degrees mark. chuck -- == chuck ciaffone chuckc@ibm.net; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00894.html (8,934 bytes)
4. RE: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Jeff Zurschmeide <jzurschm@etec.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:36:32 -0700; 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 l; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00895.html (9,331 bytes)
5. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:56:49 PDT; If your distributor advance mechanism is rusted or frozen up the centrifugal/vacuum advance would not occur and it would run better at speed the higher the idle setting. My car runs at 30degrees adva; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00897.html (9,254 bytes)
6. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Chuck Ciaffone <chuckc@ibm.net>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:13:09 -0400; Hi all, Let me clarify: 1. Even I DO know that it will not ping at idle. 2. I DO set the timing according to the MG spec using a pretty good timing light. 3. I DO NOT care much about the idle, but am; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00899.html (9,968 bytes)
7. RE: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Jeff Zurschmeide <jzurschm@etec.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:27:39 -0700; Because the Gods favor you, Chuck. That's the real reason - the remainder is just our limited attempt to explain the phenomenon in empirical terms of the space-time continuum in which our physical s; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00901.html (10,319 bytes)
8. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:32:44 PDT; It probably all comes down to the factory maximum advance setting that will allow the car to run on the worse gas you are likely to come across while carrying a full load with the engine in need of a; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00902.html (10,699 bytes)
9. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Hans Huber <hans@desmodromic.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:41:24 -0600; Advancing past a certain point won't actually do any good. That point is called MBT (Mean Best Torque (unless my notoriously porous brain dropped something)), and anything beyond that will just incr; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00903.html (11,718 bytes)
10. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: "Larry and Sandi Miller" <millerls@email.msn.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:50:00 -0700; Hey Hans, you stole MY Haynes.; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00904.html (12,841 bytes)
11. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Hans Huber <hans@desmodromic.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:09:39 -0600; Well, you know how it goes - there it was, there I was, it spoke to me.; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00905.html (8,409 bytes)
12. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:48:40 -0400; Larry, It's not yours, it's MINE! You should see my Bently manual, I think it needs an oil change! -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ Too many LBCs 3 Sprites, an Austin A40, and an Austin Mini all on th; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00908.html (14,086 bytes)
13. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: "Larry and Sandi Miller" <millerls@email.msn.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:51:58 -0700; Frank, my shop copy Bently is worse than my Haynes. It's a real bitch, the pages with the numbers I can never remember are the ones with all the oil. I do have a house copy of the Bently but it's a b; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00909.html (14,816 bytes)
14. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Frogeye11@aol.com; Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:58:04 EDT; there really is such a timing light, basically you set the needle at the degree advance you want and then watch the needle as it goes to zero. check the rpm and if they are where they are supposed t; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00923.html (8,302 bytes)
15. Re: Timing the '72 (score: 1): Author: Eriks Skinkis <eriks@netspace.net.au>; Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 21:27:49 +1000; Do yourself a favour and throw away the timing light. From my experience and from what I have read in automotive text books is that the the timing figures provided in workshop manuals are only a the; /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00966.html (10,921 bytes)

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