Having a problem with the timing of my 66 200 I6. Car has been in storage for a while. Got it running roughly last fall. When I timed it "by-ear" for a somewhat steady idle, it was running about 18 degrees advanced. Reset it to Factory (6 degrees I think), and it won't run now.
Someone told me my distributer was off by 1 tooth. Another said no, my Harmonic balancer was the problem, it probably needed to be replaced and had "slipped" so it was reading high when it was actually not. A 3rd said my timing chain was shot and I needed to replace it.
Any ideas on which it could be (or maybe all 3). Any easy checks to see if the harmonic balancer is bad? And the timing chain? I'd rather not have to replace that unless it's is actually needed. How do you tell if the dist. is off by one tooth?
Also, which way do you turn the dist. to advance the timing. All the manuals I've read say something like "turn dist. until desired readings are found" I'm afraid that if I turn it the wrong way, I'll screw something up.
Thanks!
SprintCC
Someone told me my distributer was off by 1 tooth. Another said no, my Harmonic balancer was the problem, it probably needed to be replaced and had "slipped" so it was reading high when it was actually not. A 3rd said my timing chain was shot and I needed to replace it.
Any ideas on which it could be (or maybe all 3). Any easy checks to see if the harmonic balancer is bad? And the timing chain? I'd rather not have to replace that unless it's is actually needed. How do you tell if the dist. is off by one tooth?
Also, which way do you turn the dist. to advance the timing. All the manuals I've read say something like "turn dist. until desired readings are found" I'm afraid that if I turn it the wrong way, I'll screw something up.
Thanks!
SprintCC