manually timing
02-08-2005, 01:43 PM
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manually timing
can someone explain how do u know what degree you are at when manually retarding the distributor. i know when you are pushing it back to the rear is advance and pushing toward the front is retard but how would u know what degree isit on, can u tell with the timming light, i need to retard it to 6 degree or so, but don't know how far i should push it.
02-08-2005, 02:42 PM
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02-08-2005, 07:50 PM
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Re:manually timing
wow learned something that i thought i already knew. so i have my timing set to the center mark (red one), by what the picture showed that means it is at 16 degrees? the map i am running says it was tuned on 12 degrees so do i just move it a little past the top mark?
02-09-2005, 01:06 PM
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Re:manually timing
Originally Posted by leed
Use a dial-back light, so that at idle the TDC mark is lined up w/ the gun set to the same # that is in the idle portion of your map.
Holy run-on sentence.
Holy run-on sentence.
Hey PM me and let me know when you will be able to come over and tune my car.
