johng
CCCUK Member
Thought I'd check my timing today, but I have a strange problem which hopefully someone can explain for me.
I hooked up my timing light and it was flashing away, but the mark on the torsional damper was nowhere to be seen.
The car starts and runs fine so I thought the timing can't be a million miles off, then I noticed that just occasionally the timing mark showed up and it wasn't far off.
By waiting a while to get the occasional sight of the timing line I managed to set it right and it was very stable, but any idea why it only works so rarely?
I used the light on my boat engine last week and it worked fine.
I hooked up my timing light and it was flashing away, but the mark on the torsional damper was nowhere to be seen.
The car starts and runs fine so I thought the timing can't be a million miles off, then I noticed that just occasionally the timing mark showed up and it wasn't far off.
By waiting a while to get the occasional sight of the timing line I managed to set it right and it was very stable, but any idea why it only works so rarely?
I used the light on my boat engine last week and it worked fine.