| Grifter |
Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:51 pm |
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I have the original 1600 SP with the stock carb (30 pict-3 Solex) and a remanufactured stock distributor. I've adjusted the valves several times in only a few hundred miles on the car, spaced out over several years. I've rebuilt the carb last year and adjusted per instructions in the Bentley manual, and set the idle speed to 900-950 rpm w/ a tach/dwell meter. I'm timing it with the vacuum line unhooked from the distributor and plugged, and using a timing light. OK, whew.....
I know I'm supposed to time it to 0 deg at idle, but if I do that it won't run. Last year out of frustration I started turning the distributor this way and that until the car smoothed out and held it's idle. Now when I check with the light, the timing is off to the left of the case split (ATDC?) by about 20 deg measured by eyball. I still have some hesitation at take-off and that's what I'm trying to cure.
Is it possible that the pulley was intalled wrong by that amount? Or is something else going on? Am I just an idiot?
Don't answer that last question. |
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| Glenn |
Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:52 pm |
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You can't install the pulley wrong, but you could have the wrong one.
Timing Marks on Stock Pulley |
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| Grifter |
Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:59 pm |
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wow you're fast.
I've thought of that, but everything else on this car was so original it makes me doubt that it itsn't original too.
The pulley has three notches on the rim, and according to the manual, the left one is 0, and I believe the others are 5 and 7.5 ATDC. |
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