[TR] Shade tree Timing

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Chip19474 at 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 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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