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Re: Ignition Timing

To: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
Subject: Re: Ignition Timing
From: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:27:53 -0600
   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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