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...or more precisely 8° BTDC.
The MGB lives. Started 'er up only to find that the Weber has sat too long. "Goo" would be the technical term I'd pick /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
...Had to "fiddle" the points with some emery cloth (the usual "fuzzy stuff" had grown on 'em). Static timed it, then once it was running I put the timing light on it. Ran with a LOVELY sound. I looked at the dizzy cap after the successful run-up to temperature and shut-down... hmmm... "Well, lookie there... I seem to have set the dizzy drive dog at 180° out of whack! Number one wire is at 7 O'clock!"
Then I remembered: Back-when in '92 I slapped this motor together and stuffed the drive gear in without payin' attention. It was just as easy to juggle the wires around as to pull the gear out and reposition it. "Oh, I'll get to changing it when I do the next tune-up."
Been around 15 years and well over 80K miles. Mebbe tomorrow or Saturday I'll pull the dizzy and collar to reposition it...
Mehheh. Yeah, RIGHT! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
The MGB lives. Started 'er up only to find that the Weber has sat too long. "Goo" would be the technical term I'd pick /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
...Had to "fiddle" the points with some emery cloth (the usual "fuzzy stuff" had grown on 'em). Static timed it, then once it was running I put the timing light on it. Ran with a LOVELY sound. I looked at the dizzy cap after the successful run-up to temperature and shut-down... hmmm... "Well, lookie there... I seem to have set the dizzy drive dog at 180° out of whack! Number one wire is at 7 O'clock!"
Then I remembered: Back-when in '92 I slapped this motor together and stuffed the drive gear in without payin' attention. It was just as easy to juggle the wires around as to pull the gear out and reposition it. "Oh, I'll get to changing it when I do the next tune-up."
Been around 15 years and well over 80K miles. Mebbe tomorrow or Saturday I'll pull the dizzy and collar to reposition it...
Mehheh. Yeah, RIGHT! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif