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Oct 3, 2005 | 11:45 PM

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ivanribic

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Let's not get politics involved here. I'm not going to argue this with you. I understand that hearing tends to fail with age and I'm sure some day in the not so distant future I'll have to rely on a timing light to keep from blowing things up. Until then I've been doing okay without. Am I saying "Don't use a timing light!"? No, of course not. But when someone has tried timing with a light and had no sucess I'd say there are definitely other options. I don't know why you take everything so personally, maybe some kind of insecurity, who knows.

Oct 4, 2005 | 12:00 AM

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ford390gashog

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i use the timing light to get it close enough then use a vacuum gauge to get the highest vacuum reading then drop it down 1 to prevent pinging.

Oct 4, 2005 | 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ivanribic

Ok, I got carried away and I apologize. But I would never, ever suggest to anyone to setting timing by ear over the net. As to the hearing issue, ever heard of hearing aids? Yes, my hearing is even worse now, but since 1974 I have lived a hearing loss due to jet engines and gunfire (part of the medical discharge). But since then and even into the late '80s I used to, as a mechanic on the race teams, listen to the boats on the course and call the problems as often as not. For fine tuning idle, a stethoscope works great. You learn to adapter and overcome the problems in life, or you might as well die. Everyone as some sort of disability, you just have to learn to function with them. I have always prefered total timing as the bench mark and then adjust the curve to put initial where it needs to be. I take it personnally when you give the rookies advise that you are not there to correct when they screw up what you tell them to do. It's different if you are in the shop with them, but unless you know for sure they are up to the task, you have to give them tried and tested way as it is not morally acceptable to do otherwise.