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RE: where is the timing mark?!

To: "Evangelos Makris" <xirias@hol.gr>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: where is the timing mark?!
From: "Larry Hoy" <larryhoy@prodigy.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:31:41 -0600
>Questions:
>a. Did I do everything OK, so far?

Yep.  If when you time the car you establish that your new mark is indeed the 
TDC mark on the pully
I would recommend you notch the pully.

>b. Can timing cure running on? My idle speed is down to 850 rpm (used to be
>about 1000) and the car has no emissions equipment at all, no gulp valve and no
>springs/holes on the HIF butterfly discs. The only breathing I see is the carbs
>sucking on the front chest cover.

It could.  You might also try using premium fuel for a couple of tank fulls.  I 
had a B that would
only run on when I used lower grades of fuel.

>c. Can I use the same method on my Sprite that has no timing marks on the 
>timing
>cover at all, only this time mark the cover (not the pulley) where the notch
>stops at TDC and roughly time it?

Yep.

Larry


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