Question~1976 TR6
~85,000miles
~engine has never been apart.
... and I messed with it....
If I set the static at 10BTDC as recomended...
the dynamic (4ATDC) is way off? way off!
The car is emissions removed, vacume advance line to the bottom of the forward carb. (10hg)
My book says to remove the vacume advance line during dynamic timing.
(and I am presuming plug it)
Dwell.. set to 35deg by meter, although I seem to have to change this everytime I effect the timing? (35deg has proven a good top and low end number in the past.)
The car was running strong(but overheating easily)...wish I wouldn't have touched it, and sorry do not remember the settings.
I am wondeing why the huge difference in the static versus dynamic, and why my car is running horribly now.
It will go down the road, but a shadow of its former self. no power, sputters, no engine braking. (800rpm~4ATDC(dynamic)~35deg dwell)
What have I done?
Stephen
Answersorry I don't have a real good answer but everything you adjust changes something else.I had an MGB once that would not run with the points gapped at .016 that was recomended setting , but it would run great with them about .022. I never knew why. I tried to answer a question kind of like this for someone else but I don't think he was able to get what I was telling him to do. It sounds like retarded timing. just loosen the distributor nut a little while it is running and advance the timimg.rev the engine at the linkage while you turn the dist. you can usually feel the power comming back when you get it about right. be careful not to advance it too far, it will stumble at high rev if you do. back it down until it stops doing that (retard ). i never found all the numbers in the books to be of much help. Dave
