My Engine replacement odyssey - 1994 HR
My engine replacement odyssey has begun. I posted questions about the 460 V8 in my 1994 Holiday Rambler some time back and after much engine diagnosis and finally laboratory analysis of my crankcase o...
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Bird Freak wrote:RLS7201 wrote:I know how to do it right. Been doing it for many years. How are you going to check total advance curve?Bird Freak wrote:RLS7201 wrote:Hope your arms are long enough to reach the distributor from the bottom of the engine while holding the timing light.:hjplante4 wrote:RLS7201 wrote:jplante4 wrote:
Isn't there another timing mark visible from beneath the RV? I thought they set another up for timing on #5. If not, maybe you should do it while you have everything apart.
That little piece of ingenuity was done by Chevy on the 454 for the P32 chassis.
No such luck on Fords F53 chassis.
Richard
Ingenious maybe, but it made timing an engine a 2 person job.
Some of us are capable of moving back and forth between distributer and timing light. Some not.
Richard
Why? I'm not a rookie, I'm fully capable of going into the MH and adjusting the distributer and then going under the MH and checking the timing again.
Now you know how to do it too.
Richard
To what purpose? This engine should have all advance calculated by the ECM and administered through the ignition module. The only setting required should be base timing, which has covered.
