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Originally Posted by dcdoug
He advocated tuning by ear and turning the distributor until the engine idled best and then driving it to make sure it didn't ping/knock.
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Yeah, it's called "timing by detonation" and you only do it when you have no marks or you're sure your marks are wrong. Shoe does it on one of his engines over on the FordFE forum but only because his dampner got munged. He talks about it in this thread:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/74182...J+distributor- I just set my timing mark on my pointer earlier this week with a piston stop (because it changed with my new dampner). It took less than a half hour to get it dead on, I didn't even have to jack up the car, and I didn't rotate the engine backwards either -- I'll lay out the steps if you want me to -- it's very straight forward. IMO, you only use
TBD when you have no other choice.