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Re: To advance or retard

To: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
Subject: Re: To advance or retard
From: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:40:34 +0000
Right, to retard it a bit which way do you turn it?
I can never remember..
Cheers
Tim
Richard Gosling wrote:

> This particular starting problem sounds very likely to be caused by
> over-advanced timing to me.
>
> Maybe your centrifugal advance is not working properly?  This should advance
> timing with engine speed - if it was not doing this, and your engine was
> given the ideal advance at high speeds,

Probably the case, definately ended up with a tune that was not good for 
anything
that wasn't flat out...
Way cool, but a bugger if you get caught in traffic!

> then it would be way too advanced at
> low speeds.
>
> Richard & Daffy
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