Re: [AMC-List] AMC-List Digest, Vol 5, Issue 51

["Clarence Milstead" <cmilstead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It could be timing but I'd go with a lean mixture first. I've had more
backfires from that than anything else.
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> Timing.
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> Retarded.
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> Me I mean.
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> On the road trip to Santa Fe last week I'd retarded it on the
> side-of-the-road "a few degrees" to deal with the crap gas I was buying.
> A "few" turned out to be 10. Can't beat actual measurement! Didn't
> pinging though, uhuh.
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> The 87-93 Clymer's Jeep 258 book I have, says the carburetted motor
> wants 9 - 11 btdc static timing. I never bothered to look in the newer
> books before [but wanted to double-check the new-fangled timing mark
> setup], I assumed (ahem) it would be the same as older models (usually 4
> - 6btdc). Wrong again.
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> I set it to 8btdc. I'll find out tomorrow on the drive to Irvine (45 mi.
> each way). I hope I'm not wrong a third time.
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> Tom I hope that cures your problem. Me with the crap gas we have had for
> years I gave up using a timing light long ago and have set my timing by
> ear under a load on a hill.
> "Doc"
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