Re: Timing Question about 5682s

Posted by PackardV8 On 2013/8/26 5:48:56

Owen Dyneto in post 11 gives best advice to start. Removal of distributor is rather easy. Then its bench work sitting on a stool which is about as easy as any automotive work can get. So there is nothing difficult about it. Distributors are rather simple. Not much to them.

If the distributor is not advancing the timing then that would create an overheat problem under some driving conditions especialy sustained speeds over 30 mph.

Fuel advice:
Once you get the car dolbied out then experiment with variuos gasoline brands for yourself.

Your expectations for fine tuning the engine to perfection relative to minor ping and "overheating" maybe unreasonable. I don't know. Maybe not. Modern day gas among other products tend to vary in quality and anything that resembles a benchmark standard. So any fine tuning or other measures taken today might not have the same results 3 years from now.

Any of the brand name fuels should do well. MAYBE!!!! I would avoid cut rate fly by nite brands. In my case Marathon will ping SLIGHTLY while BP SEEMS EXCELLENT.

THE PROBLEM:
Gasloline staions are gasoline stations. Which means that a car owner never really knows what they are buying. Many gas stations have "nite dumps" which means they are buying somekind of cut rate bulk bulk fuel from maybe any spurious source and selling it as brand name. Look, its a racket.
So just have to experiment for yourself with various brands and grades of gas. Gas in your region mite be completely different from gas in my region or any othwr region. ITS A CRAP SHOOT!!!!!! Just have to experiment for youself.