How do you advance a distributor?
Thanks,
Dan
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94 Dakota Sport V6 3.21 5spd (currently stock :( )
---JT McBride <James.McBride@GDEsystems.COM> wrote:
>
> >> Timing chain wear? Are you saying that because your timing
> >> chain is going bad, that your distributor cap is suffering too?
Cause'
> >chain has recently been replaced. I remember Kuk once talking about
> >tweaking the distributor shaft to slightly adjust timming.
>
> It worked. I advanced the "timing" of the distributor cap, and my
backfire
> putt-putt is gone. Clue here was that the rotor was burned at one
edge,
> not along the whole contact. I figure the worn timing chain results in
> the cam (and distributor) being retarded. Note that the spark timing
> does NOT change, as it's tied to the crankshaft position on the Magnum
> engines. This could never happen with a conventional distributor,
where
> the spark timing is derived from distributor shaft angle (either
breaker
> or electronic).
>
> That's life at 128K miles!
>
> The timing chain will get replaced pretty soon.
>
> Jim
>
>
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