[QUOTE=Mike1450;114819]Nice Thread! I read through the whole thing the last two nights.
You can determine if you are a tooth off on your timing buy bring the piston up to TDC and both valves closed. If you then wiggled the crank back and forth one valve should start to open at a time. The amount of turning in either direction should be equal to get a valve to open. If this is the case then your cam and crank should be in time.
We always used this method at the small engine rebuild shop I worked at in my younger years. We would see many engines where timing mark on either crank or cam were missing from ware.
I also noticed this statement in a earlier posting "c) Just a note for reminder, in case it strikes anyone as problematic: When I initially put the points @ .020, they break at TDC, when the "T" is in the sight hole. I have to bring them all the way out to around .040 to get them to break at the "S." "
If your are out at 0.040 with your points this seems to be very excessive. I would expect a normal range to be 0.015 - 0.025. The 0.040 may also indicate you are off by a tooth.
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