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 at 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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