eadmr04
Member
Just starting to try and get my head around basic timing on my "68 P6b. Here is what I know.
I bought the car about 10 years ago off of a well known previous member John Glinn who had a very good knowledge of most things P6 wise. I know that he set the timing at TDC (zero degrees) rather than the normal 6 degrees BTDC to allow for modern day fuels etc. I run the car on super unleaded as much as possible and also add Castrol valvemaster and octane booster. I'm thinking of changing over to electronic ignition and what to get all my facts straight before I do.
I have being doing a bit of reading and I think I've read that when the timing pointer is at firing point it should be firing on plug one and the rotor arm should be pointing at the lead going to plug number 1. Is this correct? I have managed to use a socket on the crank pulley bolt to turn it to line TDC with the pointer but when I do this I remove the distributor cap and the rotor arm is pointing at the lead which goes to the 3rd plug back on the left hand side looking from the front of the car, I think this is plug number 6?
Can anyone shed any light on this and if I'm being a complete idiot can anyone give me a bit of a basic guide so I can start checking things out?
Many thanks.
I bought the car about 10 years ago off of a well known previous member John Glinn who had a very good knowledge of most things P6 wise. I know that he set the timing at TDC (zero degrees) rather than the normal 6 degrees BTDC to allow for modern day fuels etc. I run the car on super unleaded as much as possible and also add Castrol valvemaster and octane booster. I'm thinking of changing over to electronic ignition and what to get all my facts straight before I do.
I have being doing a bit of reading and I think I've read that when the timing pointer is at firing point it should be firing on plug one and the rotor arm should be pointing at the lead going to plug number 1. Is this correct? I have managed to use a socket on the crank pulley bolt to turn it to line TDC with the pointer but when I do this I remove the distributor cap and the rotor arm is pointing at the lead which goes to the 3rd plug back on the left hand side looking from the front of the car, I think this is plug number 6?
Can anyone shed any light on this and if I'm being a complete idiot can anyone give me a bit of a basic guide so I can start checking things out?
Many thanks.