7duster4
Well-Known Member
I fooled around with the timing on my Duster today at work. I was using a friends dial back timing light. First I want to make sure I did this right.
I disconnected the vaccum from the carb and plugged the hole with a vaccum cap. Start the car, while idling check where the horizontal dash is on the balancer. I revved the engine to around 2,500rpm or so and turned the distributor until the dash on the balancer was lined up with the "0" in the middle of the timing tab. At the same time I had the dial on the light turned to 36*. Did I do this right? So I should now have 36* for my total timing. Before the initial was around 5-6* now it's 14* or so. I also adjusted the ideling screw.
It seems like the car has more balls once the rpms increase. I was getting on the on-ramp in first and punched it but didn't floor it. The tach has never moved so quick. In a split second I was nearing five grand. But here is my problem. When ideling in park and leaving from a stop there seems to be a noticable miss. But smoothens out once I get going. I can hear the rpms skipping while the car is ideling. It isn't a huge concern but I know it didn 't do this before. Is it possible the the ideling screw needs to be turned more? The timing had to affected this. The wires and plugs are nearly new.
Any info is greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
Thanks
I disconnected the vaccum from the carb and plugged the hole with a vaccum cap. Start the car, while idling check where the horizontal dash is on the balancer. I revved the engine to around 2,500rpm or so and turned the distributor until the dash on the balancer was lined up with the "0" in the middle of the timing tab. At the same time I had the dial on the light turned to 36*. Did I do this right? So I should now have 36* for my total timing. Before the initial was around 5-6* now it's 14* or so. I also adjusted the ideling screw.
It seems like the car has more balls once the rpms increase. I was getting on the on-ramp in first and punched it but didn't floor it. The tach has never moved so quick. In a split second I was nearing five grand. But here is my problem. When ideling in park and leaving from a stop there seems to be a noticable miss. But smoothens out once I get going. I can hear the rpms skipping while the car is ideling. It isn't a huge concern but I know it didn 't do this before. Is it possible the the ideling screw needs to be turned more? The timing had to affected this. The wires and plugs are nearly new.
Any info is greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
Thanks