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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 1,878 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2001 Posts: 1,878 | It's kind of crowded where I hold the timing light to time my 261. Does anyone know of a short timing light? Shorter than my 10.5 inch long Sears inductive light?
Thanks!
Last edited by Wally / Montana; 04/18/2025 10:39 PM.
1948 3/4-Ton 5-Window Flatbed Chevrolet 33 Years. Now with a '61 261, 848 head, Rochester Monojet carb, SM420 4-speed, 4.10 rear, dual reservoir MC, Bendix up front, 235/85R16 tires, 12-volt w/alternator, electric wipers and a modern radio in the glove box.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | Innova- - - -mine has a hinge in the middle that allows the timing gun to get into some very tight spots. It's also got a delay flash for checking centrifugal and vacuum advance, and a built in tachometer. www.ebay.com/itm/405606245923?Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | I cut 6 inches of the lens end off of a normal timing light and hot wired the battery wires, eliminating the trigger switch all together.
Cost? $0.00.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
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1954 1/2 ton 235 4 speed
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 4,209 Moderator, Electrical Bay | | Moderator, Electrical Bay Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 4,209 | I just lay mine on top of the starter (sort of over the side of the solenoid) with the lens up near the access hole for the flywheel. As I recall there's about 10 or 11 inches before you hit the distributor.
~ Jon
1952 1/2 ton with 1959 235 | T5 with 3.07 rear end
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | Unless you're using a delay flash light to check the operation of the centrifugal or vacuum advance, what's the point of using a strobe light in the first place? Stovebolt engines were designed to use a plain old ice pick type test light to do a perfectly adequate job of setting the spark timing.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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