Re: ihc-digest V5 #170

[John Hofstetter <hofs@domain.elided>]

>Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 18:26:05 GMT
>From: jlandry@domain.elided (John A. Landry)
>Subject: Ignition Timing with a Prestolite?
>
>Hello gang,

>
>Can someone who has the appropriate year IH shop manual that covers the
>Prestolite distributor tell me what the initial advance setting should be?
>I seem to recall seeing a '79 Scout at a wrecking yard with a sticker under
>the hood that said something to the effect that the initial advance setting
>had been changed by the factory and to now set it at [I think] 2-1/2
>degrees BTDC... or was it 5 degrees BTDC.
>
>I'd also like to know the published advance curve so I can compare that to
>the previous distributors I've tried.  I should mention that with my former
>distributors (both Holly points and electronic), while the engine was
>peppier during lower rpm acceleration, I was always on the edge of pinging
>under heavy acceleration.
>
>Any assistance is appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>John

John,
Just got back from a couple of weeks in Florida and am catching up with the
digest.  My Terra is a 79, but I have the 78 manual I that I bought for my
SSII. My manual won't help with the Prestolite, but my 79's emissions
sticker says the timing setting is 0. I wasn't comfortable with that
setting but any advance from that caused lots of pinging. Not much help.
John

John Hofstetter, who nets at   http://www.goldrush.com/~hofs
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Owner of 79 Scout Terra  with 8000 lb. Warn Winch,
Detroit Locker in rear and LS in front,
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