[rlueders]

My K301 was backfiring thru the carb and had no power when throttled up so I picked up new points and condenser.
I wanted to do static timing so I printed off the PDF that someone had put together. I had to expose the flywheel to clean off the T and S marks but that worked out well.
I'm confused about actual setting of the timing. When I turn over the engine by hand and the points start opening as shown on the multimeter I'm no where close to the S in the sight hole. If I set the points at 0.020 when the S is in the sight hole there is no spark.
I tried setting the points at 0.020 when the pushrod was fully extended and the engine runs.
I know I'm missing something in the instructions bur just not sure what.

While the tractor is running now I'd like to know it is timed correctly.
Thanks
Richard