[Tigers] Timing

[Tom Witt]

Thanks for the pictures Ron.  The second type seems to use not only the 
springs, but the cam action on the weights edge as a means of plotting the 
advance curve.  The math for the RPM, spring tension, weight... - AND cam 
action baffles my brain.  Somewhere I have a Mallory dual point (no vacuum 
advance) distributor. Got it in a pile of "free" stuff at a Mopar swapmeet 
(No step child parts for him!).  I'll have to check it's advance system out 
some time.

Oddly I had a Volvo 544 that got 36 MPG on the highway and it only had a 
mechanical advance (no vacuum). Seems to defy the necessity of vacuum 
advance with mileage like that.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ron Fraser via Tigers
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2017 12:16 PM
To: 'Gary Winblad' ; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Timing

Picture 1 is the early style Ford distributor with oil port, ID# C2OF-J - 
note there is 1 slot size for each weight - this is the area that I have 
seen wear problems

Picture 2 is the later style Ford distributor, ID# C8AF-E - note the 13L & 
18L slots - the 13L slot is being used in this example

Just wanted to show the differences in these 2 mechanical advance systems

Ron Fraser

-----Original Message-----
From: Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Gary 
Winblad via Tigers
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 10:58 AM
To: Smit, Theo <Theo.Smit at garmin.com>; Tom Witt <atwittsend at verizon.net>; 
tigers at Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Timing

The Tiger distributor I bought from Sunbeam Specialties(was years ago) was 
the kind with the two position advance limit.  I just had to turn it to the 
more limited stop, put in lighter speed shop springs and then limit the 
vacuum advance. All on my stock 260, works great, still on regular gas.
Gary 


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