I did not know what my timing was set at, so I bought a timing light.....finding the marks on the balancer was almost impossible because my 95GT has 131k on it...finally, I think I made out a 10 and it looked like a 0 was to the left of that one (from underneath the car), so I marked the 10 with some white out. When I put the light to it, boy was I every way off in timing......I bought the car used years ago, when I previously removed the dizzy, I marked and put it back the same, but it was way off....my base timing was prolly at 30degrees.
I set the timing at what looked like a 10 (the mark I made) and my car suddenly sounded totally cool....for the first time my Flows had a real nice bubba, bubba, sound....very cool......so I put the spout back in, closed her up and took her for a drive.....but I had limited acceleration....like something was holding it back....I did not want to blow anything up so I took my car back home, opened up the hood and looked again at the timing marks. After looking again at the marks (which are pretty corroded), I think I may have marked my original timing mark at 0 instead of 10, so I advanced to the next mark, which looked like a 10 (or maybe a 20).....
Anyway....I closed it all back up and took it for a drive and the acceleration was better....but the real nice idle bubba, bubba sound was gone.
When I ran the codes, I also have an oxygen sensor problem, could that be what hurt my acceleration when I set my timing initially?....Have I now advanced base timing to 20degrees, which gives a little better acceleration, but that only masks the oxygen sensor problem?
I plan to stop at an auto repair station and have them mark my balancer at 10 to 14 because I also have a PIP problem and I am putting in a new dizzy tomorrow.
Oh, and after putting the spout in, my advanced timing certainly jumped up, I have no idea how far...maybe 20 degrees or so.....and it bounced around plus or minus about 4 degrees...is that normal?
Thanks
I set the timing at what looked like a 10 (the mark I made) and my car suddenly sounded totally cool....for the first time my Flows had a real nice bubba, bubba, sound....very cool......so I put the spout back in, closed her up and took her for a drive.....but I had limited acceleration....like something was holding it back....I did not want to blow anything up so I took my car back home, opened up the hood and looked again at the timing marks. After looking again at the marks (which are pretty corroded), I think I may have marked my original timing mark at 0 instead of 10, so I advanced to the next mark, which looked like a 10 (or maybe a 20).....
Anyway....I closed it all back up and took it for a drive and the acceleration was better....but the real nice idle bubba, bubba sound was gone.
When I ran the codes, I also have an oxygen sensor problem, could that be what hurt my acceleration when I set my timing initially?....Have I now advanced base timing to 20degrees, which gives a little better acceleration, but that only masks the oxygen sensor problem?
I plan to stop at an auto repair station and have them mark my balancer at 10 to 14 because I also have a PIP problem and I am putting in a new dizzy tomorrow.
Oh, and after putting the spout in, my advanced timing certainly jumped up, I have no idea how far...maybe 20 degrees or so.....and it bounced around plus or minus about 4 degrees...is that normal?
Thanks