Thread: Does this look at 15 degrees timing?

Sorry I meant the thread title to be "does this look like 15 degrees timing"

My timing light either blew up or just stopped working. I wanted to put the timing at 15 after Ben @ JWT verified my ECU was set for that.

Usually, the top distributor bolt being in the center but just a hair to the LEFT means about 15 degrees. What do you think?
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I will go get another timing light I guess, its just another $20 down the drain. Argh.

It is so difficult to tell from a single picture, I said this in the other thread and I will say it in this one.

It could be 15* but I don't know so I will not say it is 15*.

Go buy a timing light from Pep Boys for $20 and verify it.....

Kyle Kyle Kyle.. I swear you hate me

and we only live like 20 minutes away.

im sorry

Timing light is the only way to tell. X 10

yeah I know. oh well just wanted to see if anyone could eyeball it.

Mechanical difference and so on make it so you can't eyeball something like that. However, it looks pretty close and safe enough to drive on it easy until you find a friend with a light or get one. I loan mine out all the time.

Brent

Thing is, your distributor could be all the way forward or back and you could still be at 15*. Reason for this is, ECU compensates for the distributor location if you are not in timing mode.

I was in timing mode when I set it. You know the whole disconnect the TPS, rev engine past 3k a buncha times etc.

Then went to use the timing light and.. nothing.

Word of warning too.. this is ridiculous but, from far away, a timing gun looks like a real gun, and I read on a forum once that a guy was adjusting his timing in a Walmart parking lot and someone called the cops and they came and drew on him. So if your doing your timing in public keep it on the DL.

LOL ^^

If our school systems think bitten Pop Tarts look like guns, I would definitely be careful with a timing gun.