![]() ![]() I'm not averse to buying used quality(especially older), but just want something that I can buy and not worry about as long as I don't physically abuse it. I don't need fancy-I have a couple of tachs that I can use if need be(and for fine tuning adjustments prefer the responsiveness of an analog one) and really just would like a physical dial on the back. So, once again I'd like to just get a simple dial back light. As I prefer to set the timing based on full advance, the factory scale doesn't really work either. In the past I've done it with just a paint dot topside and a corresponding dot on the timing cover to mark TDC and used a dial back. Plus, it's on the bottom of the engine so requires climbing under to look, the adjust and repeat. The engine's built in timing scale is a pain as it is difficult to read(it's a series of metal pointers at 5º intervals) and only goes out to 20º. The manufacturer was no help, and I just gave up and installed a timing tape.Ī few years later, somewhere in there the tape flew off, the source I got it from no longer makes it, and I can't easily replace it as the B-series balancer is an oddball size(don't remember off the top of my head) that doesn't match any of the common off-the-shelf ones on Amazon or at the local parts stores meant for American engines. I bought one of the fancy digital tach-dial back ones from O'reilly's for $100 or so, and the dial back function quit working after about a week(nothing changes when I change the setting). That one will probably last forever, but isn't a dial back. I bought a nice Penske branded tach-dwell-other function multimeter from someone here, and they included a gorgeous old one made of solid metal that looks like it could be off an arcade game. I tried to buy the same one at NAPA, but they no longer had(or so they told me) the dial-back version so ended up with a standard. It worked great up until my toolbox was stolen after I stupidly left it in my car port one night.but that's a different story and one I'm still slowly recovering from almost 4 years later. ![]() It was great, worked perfectly, and wasn't super expensive($75 or so IIRC). I then splurged and bought an HF dial-back that worked until I inadvertently connected it backwards and it was no more.įinally I bought just a simple dial-back light at NAPA with a physical dial on the back. My first was a standard HF one(not dial-back) that lasted a few months. I've had my fair share of timing lights in the last 7 years(since buying my MG in 2015 and then learning what a timing light was a few months later). ![]()
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