You can do quite a nice job with a timing light and on the engine.
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CHECKING YOUR DISTRIBUTOR CURVING OR TIMING
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gene
>The only auto carb/ignition/electrical shop within 50 miles of my present
>location can't calibrate a distributor for me. But, the owner did give me
an
>old Sun 506 Distributor Machine. Said he'd never used it since he bought
the
>business from a close friend of my grandfather, who died in 1967.
>
>We plugged it in and it does run. Speed varies with knob setting. Dwell
>meter face cover missing & needle damaged. Vacuum gauge face cover loose,
>but face & needle appear OK. Tach and Condenser gauges appear undamaged.
>
>No telling how old the thing is -- perhaps even 1930s or 1940s -- but the
>drive ran good. I've never used one of these before, nor calibrated a
>distributor. However, I do thoroughly understand the principles. Seems to
>me that if only the distributor support and variable speed drive work, a
>jury-rigged setup for vacuum and tach would beat the heck out of doing the
>job on the engine.
>
>I'll tell you more when I get into it; right now I'm waiting for help to get
>it off of the pickup. My plan is to get a junk yard HEI and see what I can
>do with it -- hopefully before the Alaska trip.
>
>Anyone with specific, or even general, information I should have about this
>machine, please let me know. I'm supposed to be a EE, so the electrical
>fundamentals aren't needed.
>
>Ken Henderson
>76 X-Birchaven
>
Genef -- 77PB/ore/ca
GMC MOTORHOME INFORMATION
mr.erf
http://www.california.com/~eagle/
read
CHECKING YOUR DISTRIBUTOR CURVING OR TIMING
look under new on my web page.
gene
>The only auto carb/ignition/electrical shop within 50 miles of my present
>location can't calibrate a distributor for me. But, the owner did give me
an
>old Sun 506 Distributor Machine. Said he'd never used it since he bought
the
>business from a close friend of my grandfather, who died in 1967.
>
>We plugged it in and it does run. Speed varies with knob setting. Dwell
>meter face cover missing & needle damaged. Vacuum gauge face cover loose,
>but face & needle appear OK. Tach and Condenser gauges appear undamaged.
>
>No telling how old the thing is -- perhaps even 1930s or 1940s -- but the
>drive ran good. I've never used one of these before, nor calibrated a
>distributor. However, I do thoroughly understand the principles. Seems to
>me that if only the distributor support and variable speed drive work, a
>jury-rigged setup for vacuum and tach would beat the heck out of doing the
>job on the engine.
>
>I'll tell you more when I get into it; right now I'm waiting for help to get
>it off of the pickup. My plan is to get a junk yard HEI and see what I can
>do with it -- hopefully before the Alaska trip.
>
>Anyone with specific, or even general, information I should have about this
>machine, please let me know. I'm supposed to be a EE, so the electrical
>fundamentals aren't needed.
>
>Ken Henderson
>76 X-Birchaven
>
Genef -- 77PB/ore/ca
GMC MOTORHOME INFORMATION
mr.erf
http://www.california.com/~eagle/
