I have an old school Snap on analog timing light and I am not sure how to tell what my timing is on my accord. There are 3 notches on my crank pully - one by itself and about 1/2" away there are 3 close together. Which one do I line up on the mark to check my timing? What should it be set at? If I put the notch on the middle of the three marks my timing light tells me zero degrees advanced. Is that correct? how do you know if it's retarted then??? ugh..tell me how to do this!

Thanks

 

Do any of ya'll know how to work a timing light?!?!?! geez...

TELL ME!

<munchin on a sammich>

 

the middle one of the 3 is normal timing

the outside one is advanced 2 degrees
and the inner one is retarded 2 degrees

0 degrees advanced would be normal timing...(i dunno what this is on accords)


[Modified by 01GSR, 2:53 PM 4/16/2002]

 

The middle one of the three is 15 degrees advance. The other are +/-2.

The one by itself is top dead center.

You need the 15 degree advance with the service connector jumpered out and at <700 rpm.


[Modified by niedejb, 9:23 PM 4/16/2002]

 

ok but how do you advance or reset it.. mine is see is off.. but when i went to move and reset it.. it wont budge.... my friends nissan can move forward and to the sides.. he can reset his and adjust it .... do we have to cut ours.. to be able to move it ??? thanks

 

bringing this back from the dead...

i know its a noob question, i usually get my timing done at a shop cause i was too cheap to buy my own t-light till now.

so far i know its the middle of the 3 notches that has to be aligned with the pointer correct???

but on the haynes manual it says "15 deg. BTDC (red) at 650-750 rpm."

what my question is what they mean by "red" cause none of my marks are "red" i have a old sears inductive light. with the little turn **** of degrees on the back...

thanks.

 

once upon a time..long ago....in a land far, far away...the middle notch[Degree mark] of the group of 3 was red, and the single notch[ TDC] all by it's lonesome was white.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hondadude &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">once upon a time..long ago....in a land far, far away...the middle notch[Degree mark] of the group of 3 was red, and the single notch[ TDC] all by it's lonesome was white.</TD></TR></TABLE>

good man!

ill double check if that suckers red tomorrow thanks.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mike813 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">... i have a old sears inductive light. with the little turn **** of degrees on the back... </TD></TR></TABLE>Set the advance dial to zero & look for the center mark of the 3. If you want to use the advance dial on your light, then you use the single notch all by itself.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JimBlake &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Set the advance dial to zero & look for the center mark of the 3. If you want to use the advance dial on your light, then you use the single notch all by itself.
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is it set to zero? i used 2 degrees the whole time...
its a 94 lx coupe by the way...

 

If you want to set it to stock timing, set it at zero & adjust it to the center (bigger) notch in the group of 3. Sound like you set yours to 2 deg. advanced from stock. That's OK if that's what you wanted.

If your stock timing is for example 16 deg., then you could set the dial to 16 & line up the single TDC notch. That's what I meant.

 

yea the only reason i set mine to 2deg was i followed the label under the hood, either that or i must of misread it...