Timed my roadster - now runs worse

[zzlegend]

I have emailed this picture to two different people that called me on how to time their A's.
I talked to them on the phone on how to install the pin, have spark lever up, take the slack out of the rotor, and just set to look like the picture and check that the points are just starting to open. Can't hardly go wrong for a ball park setting. So easy. Thanks to Tom W. for the picture.

[40 Deluxe]

Originally Posted by zzlegend

I have emailed this picture to two different people that called me on how to time their A's.
I talked to them on the phone on how to install the pin, have spark lever up, take the slack out of the rotor, and just set to look like the picture and check that the points are just starting to open. Can't hardly go wrong for a ball park setting. So easy. Thanks to Tom W. for the picture.

It would be a lot easier to set when the points just start to open if you remove the rotor! It's just in the way for setting the timing.

[zzlegend]

Originally Posted by 40 Deluxe

It would be a lot easier to set when the points just start to open if you remove the rotor! It's just in the way for setting the timing.

Well, i would like to think common sense would come in to play since the screw has to be loosened and the point cam has to be rotated some what which means the rotor has to be removed.