I guess the first question to ask is: Did you time and run the engine
when you last worked on the timing chain/gears? If so and all was
normal then, what did you change recently?
CR
> David Macedonia wrote:
>
>> Listers,
>>
>> I'm stumped. In trying to set the timing of my '66B (18GB engine,
>> which I just got started for the first time in 9 years!), I found that
>> I have to rotate the distributor almost as far as it can go
>> counter-clockwise (to the point where the vacuum advance hits the oil
>> pressure gauge line) and have the timing vernier rotated fully
>> clockwise before I can get the timing to be approximately 15 deg. BTDC
>> @ 800 rpm.
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