Setting the timing to the correct setting

Hi Folks,

 

     I have had occasion, mostly when I was a younger man, to have to set or reset the timing on a vehicle or two.  So I know from experience how important it can be to get it just right.  Timing is a critical setting.

 

     If the timing is set too fast the engine will run slightly ahead of the perfect time for the ignition of the fuel/air mixture inside of the cylinders.  If the timing is set to far back (retarded) then the engine will lag behind the perfect time and produce less power and incomplete combustion.  Either way, when the timing is off your engine suffers for it.  The great thing about timing is that the setting of it is completely in our hands.  WE can set the timing.  All we need to know is what the engineers have set the perfect timing to be. 

 

     Most of the time we must go to the book to discover what this timing setting should be set at to be the most perfect combustion possible.  It is ALWAYS in the book.

 

     How is your timing lately?

 

God Bless,

 

Richard Becton

Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua

Missionary Aviation

flight@flash.net

www.casadeservicio.org