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Date:         Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:29:39 -0700
Reply-To:     t bill <tbil@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         t bill <tbil@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Too much timing advance
Comments: To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM, "Anthony L. Mourkas"
          <frankenstein@TELPLUS.NET>
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> I put it down to bad gas, but today I checked out the motor during a
lull
> in the monsoon season here in NE.  I found the timing advancing off
the
> scale!
>
> The timing measured 7 degrees BTDC at 820rpm idle, but rose to 40
degrees
> BTDC at 2,000rpm, and was 50+degrees BTDC at 3,000rpm.  Ouch!  Gulp!


Just goes to show ya what can happen as our distributors age.  Mine
doesn't advance enough, so I set it a few degrees more advanced at idle.
Yes, we probably need to rebuild them.


TBill
83.5 Westy
(for sale)
>


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