I went to the super cheep man and the only desent light he had was to much $94. I will try to find a mate who has one for me to borrow.

 

I have just had a play with the timeing and found that if I advanced it more it picked up revs and if I retarded it, it lost revs, I now assume why I could never get the idle below 1500 rpm with the idle settings on the carby was because of the timming was too far advanced, I now have it retarded to 1000 rpm...

I take it for a drive now and report when I get back

 

I will take notice if timing does anything to the running on

 

tell me more about why the revs change with timing

why did I listen to you about the timing :( Tinkabell has lost her tinkle :(

Hey does any one have a tinkle sound track to put the tinkle back in my car.

now I am going to have to change her name :) maybe snap cracle pop :P yes that works with all the back firing she does.

I am thinking about riping the head off and taking a look, see if I can find the reason for the running on this time it only lasted about 5 seconds

Are you actually reading what people are typing to you??

 

The tinkling sound you are hearing is pinging...and it is VERY bad, it's a good thing it is gone.

 

If the running on time has decreased, then you are on the right track.

 

There are a number of options you have before you "rip the head off" just to have a look, since by the sounds of it, you wont know what you are seeing anyway.

 

Take the car to a mechanic and get him to look at it for you.

get a multimeter and set your timing static. i don't know what sort of distributor you have, but set the points gap and dwell angle if you can as well

 

i agree with rollaboy, if this is all too hard or you don't have the tools, take it to someone who does have them

 

i have seen too many people pull the heads off engines which had nothing wrong with them. and doing the camshaft and timing belt on a 4ac isn't something you can ordinarily just "bung on and drive"

 

you're lucky your car is even running dude. fix it properly

I believe there are no points, could this be because it has an electonic ignition,

the backfiring only occures when I use the enging to slow me down a hill, not under power

 

I hope you did not tak me serouly when I said "why did I listen to you about the timing :) Tinkabell has lost her tinkle :blush: " now I can drive it with out hearing the tinkle. I think that pinging puts strain on the engine, am I correct?

I found a timing light

Results. timing before I started was at least 20 or more before TDC

timing I set by ear was about 3 before TDC

timing I set with timing light today 9 before TDC

 

now she is running sweet, enough power and no pinging.

thanks guys

Timing lights are gold

sounds like plugs that noise under load,

get a timing light onto it and put correct plugs into it, and u should see the noise go

sounds like plugs that noise under load,

get a timing light onto it and put correct plugs into it, and u should see the noise go

 

my last post said that the pinging has cesed because I used a friends timing light and set the timing to 9 degrese

hmm, bit old to drag up but anywho...

has the engine now stopped desieling on?

and with the backfiring under engine braking, is it a proper BANG or just sort of little put put pop put.

if its the second one thats quite common, esp if the muffler is doing alot