Subject: RE: timing
Author: Jesse Open
Date: May 10, 2003, 5:21 PM
Post ID: 1712943748
There is a slight tolerance in the breaker cam profile between the two
cylinders. There is plenty of room to fine tune the timing by altering
the points gap on one or both cylinders. A little variation in dwell
does no harm . It is more important to get correct timing.
PEHA-@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 05/09/2003 7:06:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mjon-@yahoo.com writes:
If I do the left cylinder properly and accurately in the first place. How the heck can the gap be too small? Unless there is something wrong with the distributor lobe? I just did the gap for the left side. I just set it microscopically perfectly. If I do ANYTHING to those points I'm going to screw up the perfection I just did. I repeat, if you do the left cylinder accurately and you find the right side to be early or late, your only option is to adjust the timing for a compromise so that one side is early and the other is late in equal amounts. You can't go back and touch the points. If I can't be reliant on my gap and timing for the left cylinder, then why should I have any greater reliance or dependency on my ability to set the right side cylinder? Patrick |