[DMCForum] Re: Timing?

["ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Martin. Appreciate the info. :)

-Ryan

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> Okay mate, don't worry it's easy. Get your timing light, and put the 
> pickup on no 1 (that's the plug nearest the coil). Use some white paint 
> or correction fluid or sumsuch, and whiten the two notches on the 
> crankshaft pulley (only one is the one you need, but it's less effort 
> just painting them both than faffing about working out which is the 
> right one!).
> 
> See the timing scale just above and to the right of the crank pulley? 
> You don't need to be able to read it, just note the two notches in it. 
> THe notch on the right is 0 degrees, the notch on the left is 13 
> degrees. You need to set the timing to 13 degrees. There's a single
11mm 
> nut locking the dizzy down - it's under the idlespeed motor and usually 
> obscured by fuel lines and HT leads. The most difficult part of this 
> procedure is undoing and doing up that nut!!! Rotate the dizzy to set 
> the timing. Your idle needs to be spot on at 800rpm(ish) and not
hunting.
> 
> In the time it's taken for me to write this, I could have set the
timing 
> on an engine, it's that easy.
> 
> Martin

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