John,
Sounds like your having the same problem I had. Check the archives reply (just
last week) from Bob Lang on the Dizzy adjustment question from Gene Hart. If
your dizzy is not pointing about vertical to the engine (IE: Vacume pointing
twords driver (+ or - 20 Deg), and the tach housing pointing twords the master
brake cylinder, then you have the drive gear off a couple of teeth. You cannot
install the dizzy backwards, it's keyed. Or so I'm told.
To start you must set the #1 cylinder to TDC on compression stroke, then make
sure the drive dog in the dizzy housing is at about 7PM (the thing that
connects to the helical gear, oil pump and cam) slide the dizzy back in and
make sure it seats into the groove, fiddle it about. Then keeping it a bit
loose, start the bad boy up. rotate the dizzy to dial in a good idle. Then get
out the timing light to zero it in.
The reply from Bob Lang was spot on. And for about 10 minutes the car ran fine,
unfortunately for me the float valve got stuck in the closed poison on the
front carb, fuel went everywhere it was not pretty. So I can't start the thing
back up until i fix that issue.(remove, clean, blow it out, reset). And a
thanks to all who replied to my fuel problem.
--
Gene Hart
genehart@att.net
1973 TR6 CF10918 U
(c)(201)981-3327
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-------------- Original message from John Mitchell : --------------
> Hi Folks, This is gonna sound strange, but Ive had my TR6 2 years and
> today I put a timing light on it for the first time. It's running fine,
> other than a slight buck at constant speed cruise(like 40). I decided
> it was time for a Carb rebuild, but thought that I would get the
> ignition set up perfectly before messing with the carbs. I made a chalk
> mark at 12 BTDC and unplugged the vacuum retard and plugged it. With
> the timing light on #1 the mark is 2" or 3" past the pointer. I had to
> turn the distributor CCW to get it anywhere near the mark at which point
> it was running very rough and back firing. I moved it back to where it
> was and bolted down for now. The vacuum unit is pointed at the drivers
> side door(like 1 o'clock if 12 is the rear of the engine. Number 1 plug
> wire terminal on the cap is toward the front of the engine. Im just
> wondering if this means the Distributor is 180 degress off. I guess I
> can always time by trial and error and listen for ping, but I'd kinda
> like to set things right before changing the carbs and adding a whole
> new set of variables. I sure this will be an easy one for you guys.
> Thanks in advance
> John Mitchell 76TR6
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