[budscub]

Originally Posted by three4rd

I will do that. We've had alot of rain today so I'm going to have to mow again soon (the whole summer has gone that way), so I'm chomping at the bit here to get this thing going again. I'm going to re-time using a light. Something just doesn't seem right in that the piston is well on the way back down before the S appears in the flywheel window, and it's even farther down by the time the T appears. Should that be the case? If I'm correct, the points appear to be open during the entire intake and compression stroke. I just wonder if things are out-of-whack between the cam and crankshafts. I did have the front pulley off awhile back (had a thread going about taking that off) and seem to recall there is only one way to put it back on - the one set screw going against the key. IF, however, I put the flywheel on at the wrong place (is that even possible to do?), then of course the S and T marks would not correspond to when the points open.

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You say the piston is on the way down before the timing mark is visable? I don't think thats right at all. That would make you way late in timing. If I understand correctly the S mark should be before the piston reaches the top of stroke, and the T mark should be visable when the piston is at top Dead Center.