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Ok, I've installed my refurbished rocker arm assembly and tightened it down to 65#.
I admit up front I am looking for a short cut to static timing and setting my valves from scratch according to Bentley.
Here are the steps I took to avoid this nightmare. My car was running fine when I removed the rocker assembly.
1. My timing is set at 10* advance
2. My No 1 piston is in the plug firing position
3. My dizzy rotor arm is pointing at cyl No1 in the cap.
4. My dizzy points are full open (plug #1 would be firing)
I kept very careful track NOT to move anything in the engine.
I was very careful to keep the rocker arms in their original
position on the rocker shaft.
I installed the new assembly very carefully and tightened the 6 nuts slowly, at 5 pound intervals. As I tightened down, the pushrods rotated the rocker arms and pushed down various valve springs. Photo below of 4 rocker arms. Edit-Cyl 5 and 6 in photo
Q? Is there some way to avoid the lengthy static timing and the lengthy process of setting all the rocker arms adjustment screws at neutral , trying to find TDC all over again? And beginning from ground zero?
Q2 If I simply installed the plugs, wires and dizzy cap and turned the key-- what might happen?
thanks,
dale (Tinster)
I admit up front I am looking for a short cut to static timing and setting my valves from scratch according to Bentley.
Here are the steps I took to avoid this nightmare. My car was running fine when I removed the rocker assembly.
1. My timing is set at 10* advance
2. My No 1 piston is in the plug firing position
3. My dizzy rotor arm is pointing at cyl No1 in the cap.
4. My dizzy points are full open (plug #1 would be firing)
I kept very careful track NOT to move anything in the engine.
I was very careful to keep the rocker arms in their original
position on the rocker shaft.
I installed the new assembly very carefully and tightened the 6 nuts slowly, at 5 pound intervals. As I tightened down, the pushrods rotated the rocker arms and pushed down various valve springs. Photo below of 4 rocker arms. Edit-Cyl 5 and 6 in photo
Q? Is there some way to avoid the lengthy static timing and the lengthy process of setting all the rocker arms adjustment screws at neutral , trying to find TDC all over again? And beginning from ground zero?
Q2 If I simply installed the plugs, wires and dizzy cap and turned the key-- what might happen?
thanks,
dale (Tinster)