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Re: Glowing exhaust manifold Posted by Landjet [Email] (#16) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Landjet) on Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:33:13 In Reply to: Re: Glowing exhaust manifold, RadioFlyer1, Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:17:16 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I haven't done it myself on the 8V, but in the past I've isolated the vacuum, and what you checking is just the mechanical advance inside the distributor.
So, you'll need a dial type timing light. Set the timing static at the manual recommendation. Then, have someone hold the RPM in 1000 increments so you can find out when the timing advance kicks in. What you're trying to do is plot a curve for RPM vs advance. Once the mechanical weights kick in, they would spike the timing probably all at once.
Or, make friends with the guys in Connecticut at Chasing Classic Cars -- they have a distributor timing machine that would test the distributor. I was going to send them my 16V distributor that has a 99 mechanical advance inside it :-) But, just haven't gotten round to it.....
Hey, I got to meet Blacksheep -- he met me in Grand Junction and we went over to Cmyles for a daytrip.
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