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Don't forget that you're just setting the base, or initial timing to prevent kickback when starting, especially if hand cranking. You need the spark to occur at TDC or slightly after, never before top dead center. Once the engine starts and you move the spark lever, you are no longer at that initial setting. It's rather amusing how some folks get all OCD over setting the initial timing down to half a gnat's eyelash, then pull the spark lever "down 2/3 of the way and leave it there" or some other spot that they just picked out of the air without understanding why. They don't seem to realize that all their fussiness just went out the window!