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Every timing light I used in my youth had no dial on it. You set the timing with the light, and that was that. I bought a timing light a few years ago, though I've never used it, and it has the dial. Being that there's no numbers on the timing marks, I can only assume you mean setting the dial to 24, and reading the timing while the engine is running above 2500rpms? Forgive my ignorance, please. I just never used a timing light with the dial on it.,,,,BB |
Well hell, that sounds about as easy as it can possibly be? I am out of town right now, but once I get home I'm going to be fixing the distributor, and marking the pulley with the new measurements. I know how timing can affect a piston engine, as I have hit just the right setting a few times on cars in the past. The difference is usually night and day.,,,,BB
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I just had a thought?? Is it possible that the pulley was put on wrong? I see non factory looking sealer on the front cover. A medium blue colored silicone. I've heard they're keyed, is it possible it got put on 90* off? I have no idea when all this work was done to it, but it's been quite a while!,,,,BB
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I'm also going to try and mark the pulley today. The trailing is always 8 behind leading, right? So I would just measure 24mm ahead on the pulley for the leading, and then 8 back for trailing?,,,,BB
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Or is it 24 ahead from leading, and 16 ahead from trailing? If I just had a picture of what a marked pulley should look like, it would clear up a lot of my questions.,,,,BB
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Originally Posted by Buzzbomb' post='824747' date='Jun 17 2006, 11:26 AM
Or is it 24 ahead from leading, and 16 ahead from trailing? If I just had a picture of what a marked pulley should look like, it would clear up a lot of my questions.,,,,BB |
Well, bottom front plug is where I hooked it up. I just found out a friend of mine of 3-4 years used to build fast first gens BITD. I'm trying to lure him over to the house to help me out with it. Beer and food, etc hehe....BB
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So if the yellow mark is at TDC, where should the arrow on the rotor be pointing? Right now it's pointing to the upper left, towards the passengers side headlight--roughly--,,,,BB
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Originally Posted by Buzzbomb' post='825368' date='Jun 21 2006, 04:27 PM
So if the yellow mark is at TDC, where should the arrow on the rotor be pointing? Right now it's pointing to the upper left, towards the passengers side headlight--roughly--,,,,BB
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That's what I figured. That's pretty far off, almost an exact 180*. Which, by my past experience means it will run, but not all that well. So, if I pull the distributor and change it, and it runs horribly or not at all, then the pulley was off, not the distributor.,,,,BB
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