Mayf,
My observation too.
Bob Palmer
rpalmer@ucsd.edu
rpalmer@brobeck.com
Ugh...I smeell something wrong here. The dist shaft rotates counter
clockwise doesn't it? SO wouldn't a loose housing that is rotated by the
torque fron the shaft be going in the retard direction? Yeah, I think that
is correct, but somebody check that thought. So a loose distributor can't
get advanced by itself can it? Has to have outside help (like the mechanic)?
mayf
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Larry Paulick
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:51 AM
To: Bob Palmer
Cc: Larry Blackman; tigers
Subject: Re: Solve the Problem
Bob, I don't know why it went advance, other that movement when I
removed the right side wires out of the way. This is probably the cause
of distr. movement.
The car runs great, like before after retiming, for the last week.
Yesterday, I checked the distr. bolt and even with a lock washer, it
was not as tight as last week. I cleaned the bolt , and added a dab of
Locktite, and retightened.
Larry
Bob Palmer wrote:
>Larry, Listers,
>
>There is one little question I still have and that is, why did the problem
>get steadily worse? You don't say explicitly Larry, but I presume when you
>timed it, it was 38 degrees advanced. The direction the distributor shaft
>rotates would tend to retard the spark if the clamping nut was loose. Also,
>I presume that you moved it while working on the starter, probably when you
>removed the right side wires. It seems to me that the timing should, if
>anything, have tended toward retard again, which would have made the
problem
>get better, not worse. I'm thinking what really happened is that running so
>far advanced did some damage, maybe not all that serious, but enough to
make
>the symptoms worse.
>
>Bob Palmer
>rpalmer@ucsd.edu
>rpalmer@brobeck.com
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