<VV> Re: moveable timing

[Mike Kost]

Pete,

You might try a new set of points and condenser.

My son had an engine that just would not idle or run smoothly. After 
thinking it was valve or carb problems we finely found that while trying 
to adjust the valves we had pulled a stud. Rather than mess with this 
engine, we swapped the running engine from his other car in. Due to a 
wiring error in the swap he fried the points and all of the wiring back 
to the solenoid. We fixed the wiring and replaced the points, points 
plate, and condenser from the original engine. The engine ran with the 
same problems as the original engine on which we pulled the stud. This 
had been a very good running engine before the swap. We noticed the 
points seemed a little strange in how they came together and decided to 
change them for some used points (and condenser) laying on the shelf. 
After we did this the engine ran very good just like it did before.

Mike Kost
SMCC

pete wrote:

>This summer I had a very difficult time maintaining the proper timing on my 68/110/pg/. It was inconsistent and always pinging, regardless of octane and timing.During this period,I blew an exhaust valve[car missed convention,we didn't]
>   Had the heads repaired,the carbs and distributor  rebuilt, and also installed a new Clark's harmonic balancer.This was a smog equipped engine. I removed the smog pump and replaced the exhausts.  The carbs and heads are the original ones[smog],although as I said they have been rebuilt.
>     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.
>   What could be the root cause? Is something slipping internally?
>           Baffled!         Pete
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