2015 BS thread. Bring it!
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Hey all! Brain picking time! So we messed with the truck yesterday and tried to get the timing a little closer, boy do I need a fricking timing light. Anyway the knocking has stopped. Of course it still runs like crap, but at least it is not knocking. I was messing with it just now, still no knock, but high idle, I suspect it is still too way advanced, because messing with the idle screw on the linkage did nothing. So I shut it off and well I am going to get a damn timing light lol But! why did it quit knocking? Is it okay now, maybe the way off timing was doing it? 
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Good evening Oregon and all!
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Just dropped in to see what condition everyone's condition was in.
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Hey all! Brain picking time! So we messed with the truck yesterday and tried to get the timing a little closer, boy do I need a fricking timing light. Anyway the knocking has stopped. Of course it still runs like crap, but at least it is not knocking. I was messing with it just now, still no knock, but high idle, I suspect it is still too way advanced, because messing with the idle screw on the linkage did nothing. So I shut it off and well I am going to get a damn timing light lol But! why did it quit knocking? Is it okay now, maybe the way off timing was doing it?
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you can pick up a basic timing light at the Eugene Harbor Freight tools for $19.99. If the throttle is at high the throttle plates are not allowing the idle screws to function until you get the RPM down. I take it you need a dwell tach meter as well?
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Basically last week it died on me at a light, hard to start, finally got it going and when I got it home, it was knockng really loud, like a push rod knock. So I parked it for a few days until the weekend, so I could play with it. When I start it up, no more knock. it was odd. Dad is a snap on dealer, I think I am just going to hit him up lol