[Roadsters] timing issues

[Dana Nojima]

Message: 5

>Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 22:12:44 -0500

>From: Ronnie Day <ronnie.day at gmail.com>

>Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Timing issue

 

>Getting back to basics, with a points type distributor you have to set the
point gap before you adjust the timing. I >don't remember the gap or the
dwell adjustments, but setting the gap using a regular business card should
get you >pretty close. Changing the point gap moves the timing and If the
point gap is way off it'll be hard , if not >impossible, to set the timing.

> 

>FWIW,

>Ron

 

As for getting back to the basics, if it ran great before doing the maint. I
would not be looking at a skipped tooth but rather things that you might
have "adjusted".  

 

Plugs in the correct order. 

Vacuum hoses hooked up. 

The advance plate able to rotate. 

 

Dana

 

Dana Nojima

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