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Re: '39 Packard Six - Finding TDC on an engine with no visible timing marks
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All of my experience is with '37s, so I'll have to leave it to others to chime in more definitively. Perhaps you have a later bellhousing installed, where the inspection cover is cast in? Just a guess...
Posted on: 6/2 9:52
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Re: '39 Packard Six - Finding TDC on an engine with no visible timing marks
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Assuming your engine will start Hook up a vacuum gauge at your intake manifold, start your engine, you should show about 19 in.of mercury on the gauge or something close if not turn your distributor a slight bit clockwise or counter clockwise. If the needle goes down you ar going the wrong way if the needle advances stop turning wait a couple minutes and bump it in the same direction. continue this process until the needle starts to vibrate a bit. STOP. Bump it back to where the needle levels off. your timing is now dead on. tighten it down and celebrate.
Jim Long
Posted on: Yesterday 16:04
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