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Dano78

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I have moved several times since I had a collection of ballancers and that cast iron can only follow for so many moves.
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Yeah I have to laugh at that....my wife doesn't... On my las tmove from Albuquerque, I had 9500lbs of household goods and that didn't count the other 14k I was hauling/towing with my truck on the drive back... This iron is getting a wee bit too expensive to be moving around..

Use to be the only way to set a factory Fords timing was the roll on the throttle method.
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Funny you mention that. That's the exact way I find my baseline to work from when you set up a hotter engine. You be surprised how well it really works.

I think we are in agreement with the statement that: go far enough back in Fords and parts use can become more speculation than fact.
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And I'll tell ya, from all the fords I've ripped apart and all the variations that Ford used, I'm begining to wonder if Ford even know what in the hell they were doing!?!

Here's another interesting note- Did you know that as far I understand, (at least thru to the 70's) the Mustang II was the only Ford production car originally designed, NOT having a V8, that had the majority of the engine and components engineered to fit the chassis rather than the chassis re-configed to fit the engine? The Mavericks and Falcons and etc.... had new chassis (or altered ones) to fully accept the engine and its components as they were, making all the engine components identical. (bracketry, pullies, mounts, accessories, etc..)
 
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