Help with Timing Light
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Help with Timing Light
I have a sears Inductive Timing Light. It clips to the wire (I assume #1) and to power. I see no way of testing different levels such as total advance. Can anyone help me. It is # 161.2137. Thanks
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Re: Help with Timing Light
you need the inductive advance light to see you total advance
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...id=00921023000
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...id=00921023000
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You guys'll laugh, but I bought the best damn timing light I've ever owned from J.C. Whitney. It's a digital type with an LCD display and I can check advance in one degree increments along with several other features.
Equus Timing Light
Price listed is the same I paid 7 years ago. I though it was expensive then. It's a bargan today.
Equus Timing Light
Price listed is the same I paid 7 years ago. I though it was expensive then. It's a bargan today.
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Just add a mark to your balancer where total advance should be, then set it with your light. I set total advance, and let initial fall where it may (about 16* on my motors, total is set at 35*). This is more accurate than most of the dial-back lights. You can use the cheapie timing tape to locate the mark, but paint it on as the tapes only stay on for a very short time (about 10 minutes in my case).
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Stick with the regular inductive type, the roll back type are not that accurate.
If your motors are GENVI the timing degrees are stamped on the balancer. Just make a chalk or white paint mark at 34 degrees and you are ready.
I have had my Sears timing light for a number of years now and it has proven to be very reliable.
If your motors are GENVI the timing degrees are stamped on the balancer. Just make a chalk or white paint mark at 34 degrees and you are ready.
I have had my Sears timing light for a number of years now and it has proven to be very reliable.
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Re: Help with Timing Light
Thanks all, I have a gen V or VI, not sure, I will look on the balancer for the marks, if they are not there how do I know? They are 502s with a HP 500 kit if that makes a difference. I am thinking 32 will work. I heard to do top speed runs.
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Poor mans method: Measure the circumference of your balancer. 36* is 1/10 of the circumference. Find the zero mark and align it with the "zero" on the timing tab. If you want 32*, start at 4* ATDC, then measure 1/10 of the circumference you had previously in the opposite direction (to get a mark BTDC), and that will be where your new mark goes, in this case 32* BTDC.
Be sure you go in the correct direction, or just play dumb and do it going both ways and you will be sure to have a new mark that aligns with the "zero" on the tab at full advance when you set it.
-Greg
Be sure you go in the correct direction, or just play dumb and do it going both ways and you will be sure to have a new mark that aligns with the "zero" on the tab at full advance when you set it.
-Greg