Paul Hunt had this to say:
>Not so much Lucassed as Ownered. It's true it is a weak point, but the
>factory instructions say that the clamp-bolt should not be used to set the
>timing and it frequently is. The holes in the clamp-plate for the bolts to
>the block are large enough to give quite a large range of adjustment and it
>is these that should be slackened to fine-tune the timing, not the
>clamp-bolt.
Good advice! Now if there were only some way to get a wrench on the block
bolts... I use a tiny ignition wrench less than 3 inches long and I
still can only turn one flat at a time on the front bolt. It is probable
that the extreme tediousness of this procedure leads the less patient to
resort to the clamp bolt instead.
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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