[TR] Shade tree Timing

[Chip19474 at aol.com]

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.