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Chip19474@aol.com wrote:
>many years ago when I was just a poor college student with my first car (a
>'58 TR3A I bought for $400), a very old, cranky, but wise beyond his years
> foreign car mechanic/shop owner gave me my first lesson on setting timing
>on my 3A.....he loosened the dist cap nut and did exactly what you
>described only without ever glancing at the tach. I was so stunned the first
>time
>I saw him do this (because I was expecting him to bring out his hand held
>tach, dwell meter, timing light, etc and charge me one week wages from my
>part time job working as salesman at a sporting goods shop) that I nearly
>fell over when he said "no charge sonny, that's how we do it!" And, the 3A
>ran and ran and never let me down for years to come:)
>
>Chip Krout
>Delaware Valley Triumphs, Ltd.
>Skippack, PA
>1976 TR6 CF57822U
>
>
>
>In a message dated 1/19/2012 12:52:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>magnut_dan@hotmail.com writes:
>
>You advance the (loose) distributor to get max rpm then retard the
>distributor (turn back) until you get to 100 rpm less than maximum. This
>seems
>to work really well for our motors.
>
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