<VV> moveable timing

Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
Fri Nov 17 09:36:59 EST 2006


Before you go much further, I'd check to see if the timing mark really 
is at TDC.  It could be that the crank keyway for the balancer is 
machined in the wrong place.  I'll bet that the engine isn't really 
running at 42 degrees advance.

--Bryan

On Nov 16, 2006, at 5:20 PM, pete wrote:

>      Once I reassembled the engine,I tried to set the timing and found 
> it would not run properly at 12 or 14 degrees. Thinking my timing 
> light to be faulty,I asked a fellow Corvair owner to come over to 
> check his light against mine. My light was fine. We found that to get 
> the car to run smoothly,it must be set to 36 to 42 degrees advance. In 
> addition,the timing appears to change between engine start ups;i.e. 
> from 36 degrees and 15 minutes later it will 42 degrees.



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