here is what I did I hooked the red wire to the +12 on the battery and the blackwire to the ground. Then I hooked the green wire to the sparkplug wire which closest to the flywheel because I pretty sure its #1. I jumped the service connecter under the glove compartment box. When I pull the trigger and point at the flywheel nothing happens. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Nick

 

your hooking it up wrong....#1 is closest to crank pulley

 

wow, I need a break. I ment crank pulley. I dont know why I said flywheel. btw It came with a long spring thing what is that?

Also its a direct hookup timming light. Its what they told me I needed.

Nick

 

long spring thing?wha the timming light?

 

yea it came with a long spring that reduces in size. I have know idea what it does. it is not attached to the timing light.

 

never seen that, nothing in the directions?
maybe its bad?

 

this is the first time i tryed setting my timming, and ive never done it before so i dont know if its a bad light or I'm doing it wrong. any way to test the light out?

 

well, the light should have a little led that shows you if its good. what kind of light did you get?

 

a actron 30 dollar dc power timing light.. I'm using aftermarket spark plug wires. would that do it?

 

Make sure the you're hooking up the wire on the spark plug wire correctly. Make sure it's wrapped around the #1 spark plug wire and not clamped down on it. Other than that, as long as u have power and ground it should be working.

 

thanks I clamped it on it.

 

I just wrap the green wire around the sparkplug wire and clamp it back on itself. correct? i wish I could find my manual.

 

If it's not an inductive pickup timing gun then that might be what that spring is for. It might clamp on top of the spark plug and then plug into the boot and the green wire clips to that. dunno

I had an old cheap gun that worked like that

 

does it hook directly to the spark plug wire to the spark plug or the spark plug wire and the distributor cap?

Nick

 

Mine hooked to the plug itself, I used it on a domestic though and it was really easy to get to the plug.

I really do not know if it will make a difference hooking it up the the distributor...I wouldn't think it would. A manual would really help you out right about now. :-/

 

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Yeah, I had one like that too. You put the big end of the spring on top of the spark plug, in place of the plug wire. Then you put the plug wire onto the spring. Now you clamp the trigger wire of the light directly onto the spring. Don't loop it around & clamp to itself.

Since your plug is down in a hole in the valve cover, there might not be enough room to use that kind of light. Make sure it doesn't short to ground... Maybe you can make it fit at the distributor cap instead.