Re: Engine Timing

Posted by Packard Newbie On 2020/3/27 20:41:14

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the replies, always appreciate all of Packard Info community's input and advice.
I picked up the carb today on my way to the coast. The carb guy had a little plastic vial with a significant amount of what looked like metal filings that he had extracted from the unit. He also had several pictures on his phone of the internals of of the WA-1 and there were 2 or 3 of different parts of the carb that looked pretty crusty. He said they were never even taken out of the carb when it was supposedly rebuilt and his 'after' pictures showed everything all cleaned up and shiny. I am not a mechanic OR a carb guy, so I have limited knowledge on what all he was showing me and do not have the pics to post here, but it SOUNDS like I received a very shoddy rebuild from 'those guys' in El Monte, CA. (for $350 a pop)

Pat re your comments, I have to admit, I have no idea what 'total timing' is, nor do I know what 'all in' is, at least not in reference to engine timing. Sorry. When I time an engine, I simply make sure the idle is to spec, disconnect AND PLUG the vacuum line and put the timing light on it and adjust the distributor to spec timing and figure I'm done!??!!? What do I know??? Obviously, not much!!! LOL Chris