Re: [T3] Engine noise

["Daniel Baum" <daniel@type34.info>]

<x-flowed>After all that, I just took it for a 30km run, up hill and down dale. It's 
one of my favourite runs because it includes all kinds of roads, from twisty 
country lane (being widened to a dual carriageway now so not for much 
longer) to a big motorway.

It was perfect! The further retarding of the timing has practically 
eliminated THAT noise, which, it turns out, really was pinging. My main 
problem on the hills, I found, was all those slow drivers in their modern 
cars who held me up!!

The lesson is, don't time a 311..T distributor at more than 29 degrees total 
advance. Pity it took me a year to find that out.


Daniel

> > At first I timed it to 7.5 degrees BTDC, because that is where I
> > was led to believe that it should be timed.
>
> The question of where it should be timed at idle depends on not much more 
> than
> how much advance the distributor give you. If the dist gives you 22.5 deg 
> of
> advance, then 7.5 is a good place to start.
>
> > After that I noticed in one of the books that a '69 is supposed to be 
> > timed
> > to 0 degrees.
>
> The '69 dist that we got over here with the FI give just about 30 deg of 
> mech
> advance. Thus they get timed at TDC at idle.
>
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