<VV> Timing light - was Need Help with 102 HP

Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
Mon May 18 08:36:22 EDT 2009


Here's what looks like a reasonably priced one, at your nearby Sears:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00921023000P?keyword=timing 
+light

I think I'll put one on my list as well.  You can, BTW, get a  
reasonably good idea of the advance by using the timing scale to  
measure off another couple 16 degree increments on the harmonic  
balancer and adding marks at those points.

--Bryan

On May 18, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Chris & Bill Strickland wrote:

> Ron wrote:
>
>> "modern timing lights"?
>> What modern timing lights?  My newest one is about 35 years old.  Is
>> that modern enough?
>
>
> Maybe, maybe not -- is it "adjustable"?  Like a Snap-On Adjustable
> Timing Light Part Number: MT2261AP?  My first adjustable probably was
> produced about forty years ago, but didn't have a degree indicator,  
> just
> a knob, so you had to figure things out for yourself.  Timing  
> lights are
> nearly becoming obsolete in this era of knock sensing computer
> ignitions,  so if you don't have a good "modern" one, now would be a
> good time to ask Santa to put you on his/her list.



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