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Engine Tech / Re: Distributor and timing marks
Quote from: MasterBlaster
Usually 8 or 10 degrees BTDC (see marks stamped on balancer) is okay. As it's been "hopped-up", you may need a slightly different setting.

SPark OUT. There's a jumper plug at the end of the 2-wire bit right next to the distributor's main plug-in. With the jumper installed, the computer adjusts the timing based on what it thinks the engine needs. When the jumper is out, timing is locked at whatever the distributor is physically set to, usually 10 BTDC. This gives you plenty of time  :p  to set the engine's "base" timing without it jumping all over the place.

The jumper plug looks like this:



Now only if I could get the engine started so I COULD time the ed thing.
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Engine Tech / Distributor and timing marks
Ouch! I took out my hopped-up 3.8 '88 cat for a run the other day and all of a sudden the thing backfired and died. After a brief period I managed to get it started (it was running smoothly at that time) and I took it the remaining one mile home. Well, today I just tried to start it and it's no go now. I checked under the hood and discovered my distributor is a bit loose so I'm sure the timing is way off. Anyone with any suggestions? Where is the timing mark? Where should the timing be set? The motor has be modified (it's Cougar Smith's COTM and a list of mods are there) and I don't like the thoughts of destroying the motor by unknowledgable twisting the distributor. (I'd also like to get out of paying big bucks for a timing light I'll probably never use but once.)