This is not nice guys! Everybody is telling Joe that
he is too retarded :)
Buly
Hey – I resemble that
remark!
I only had a few
minutes to run out and throw a timing light on it tonight and, yes, I am way
retarded – oh, and so’s the engine
timing.
But I’m in a bit of a
quandary. I set TDC on the
flywheel as Lynn described and it looked so perfect. But the timing light is
showing it firing at 40+Deg. ATDC and when I turn the Crank Angle sensor as
far as it will go trying to advance it I can only get up to about 20Deg ATDC.
The engine, however, sounds MUCH, MUCH better as I advance the timing –
although that may also be because I pickup about 100RPM when I do that.
Oh, and the little
red and yellow dots on the main pulley seem to be correlating with the
flywheel marks at this point.
Now, I am supposed to
put the timing light on the #1 Leading plug lead, right? That’s what my Mazda
manual says.
I guess I’ll have to
see if I can re-position my Crank Angle sensor this weekend and see what
happens when I can advance it further.
The MicroTech setup manual says to set the idle timing to 5Deg
ATDC – it also says that is the yellow mark on the
pulley).