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mike the snake (Guest)

Any tips on timing the car with the timing light?

There's white marks all over the harmonic balancer, as well as marks on the flywheel and bellhousing.

It's a mechanical advance distributor, no vacum chamber, no vacum line.

SO, at idle I should look for what, maybe 10 degrees advance?

Then at 3000 I should be at full advance which should be somewhere around what, 26-30?

Roger told me to tune the car by ear, throw away the timing light, (I actually am off to BUY a timing light right now) but he may aalso have been "ear timing" the car with the stuck advance mechanism on the old diz, so this time I'm going with the timing light and see if i can't get some data.

3/8/158:43 AM

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