Timing?????!!!!!

[Fred K-OR]

If all else fails, here is a solution. I being a simple minded individual and not an expert in this area, use the simpleton approach. It works for me. Once you use this thing, you can then "tweak" it a bit like mentioned in these posts to get it just right.

http://www.brattons.com/uploads/imag...arge/17502.jpg

[SDJason]

Originally Posted by Fred K-OR

If all else fails, here is a solution. I being a simple minded individual and not an expert in this area, use the simpleton approach. It works for me. Once you use this thing, you can then "tweak" it a bit like mentioned in these posts to get it just right.

http://www.brattons.com/uploads/imag...arge/17502.jpg

Actually used one of these the last time I set my timing - worked great, and pretty simple to use. Everyone should own a cam wrench anyways, so why not have one that'll pull double duty?

[TDO]

I also use a 6volt bulb with alligator clips to take out back lash . works great for me.

[Doot]

It runs great!
That's what it was....The wording of the "opposite" number 1 lobe.....
If I would have not turned the rotor 180 degrees, It would've been fine all along!!!!!
Live and learn! THANK YOU again!!!!!!

[Doot]

Thanks to all Happy Father's Day!!!!

[glenn in camino]

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Did you retard the spark first?

[James Rogers]

Why is timing a Model A with a stock distributor so complicated? I find I can usually time one faster than most people can get out their fancy tools and be spot on at that.

[ctvpa]

Here it is for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xc7r0djEKo
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju4nagtiCU

[broommaker]

Just a note, I was looking through Snyder's catalog and run across a dist. cam wrench, which I needed one, ordered the one with the instructions on the handle, it's a NUR-REX, I tried it, worked the first, great little tool to carry in the "A".....

Jim Norris

[1931 flamingo]

I recommended this to everyone when I first saw it in the catalog. FWIW
Paul in CT

[bhiland]

Once you get it right u can do it evrrytime. The first time is the trick.

[Purdy Swoft]

Model A's have got to be one of the easiest automobiles to time. Its difficult to explain how its done so that it is understandable by a person that has never set the timing on a model A.

[Richard Wilson]

Originally Posted by TDO

I also use a 6volt bulb with alligator clips to take out back lash . works great for me.

I like to use my little electrical test meter to do the same. Both tools work great and should be part of any Model A tool box.

[Doot]

Originally Posted by bhiland

Once you get it right u can do it evrrytime. The first time is the trick.

You are exactly right!
I've gone through the motions a dozen times during this minor set-back, but once I made sense of the manual's wording, & actually got it in time...well, hell now I'm almost a pro! You can bet that I will not forget how to set the timing on this car any time soon!!!!