Performance timing

Could you explain the term Bucking on the starter. Is that when you release the key after trying to start the car and it sounds as if the engine is going backwards?


No it's when you have so much advance, and when you are cranking it and the engine fires, that it tries to fire "backwards" This used to be (when I was young) TYPICAL of poor timing curves in Chevs. You'd hear some guy crank the thing, and then it would abrubtly slow down when cranking ---difficult to describe unless you hear it