We are kind-of in winter mode (or mood). The truck is in my unheated, but above freezing shop right now.
Last week, we tried to set the timing and thought we had all aligned, but then we got a back-firing once through the carb and haven't touched the darling since, just to ugly to work on it right now.
We set timing with the valve cover off.
We will get at it again, probably in February or if we feel ambitious in December and get it in the heated shop. More then.
Oh, btw, the distributor has electronic pickup.
Can we check the right timing through the electronic points? I use to work with natural gas pumping units, ford 428, Chrysler 318 etc. and was relatively good at them, but that's 30 years back and memory fads away.
The flywheel has no other timing markings than the dot, beat or whatever you call it, right? One should be able to mark the BDC degrees by the teeth on the flywheel with a proper marking or not?
Cheers, Joerg
