i'm having issues timing my 83 sedan, i have no timing light and the best mpg i'm getting is 20hwy roughly in town is like 14 at best if someone could show me a pic of where the disty is supposed to be to get optimal mileage that would be awsome...

There is no, "one position". The variables are too great, thus the timing light. You can adjust the dist. by the sound and feel of the car during acceleration under load... not just revving the engine but move the dist. drive it... feel, listen and adjust a little this way or that a touch more... then back... etc... A pinging engine or sluggish, find the middle. It sounds like you have done this but figure I would throw it in.

 

timing light is the best... look for them at garage sales, test it out on the car to assure if flashes before you hand them money... everyone has a supposedly working timing light that Jim Bob used before he died... 30 years ago. I had 3 of Jim Bob's old timing lights that came out to be duds...no matter how trusting the old lady looks...test it.

 

Also, poor gas millage is an accumalitive thing: Look for vacuum leaks as they kill gas millage, could be tune-up issues: plugs-gap, wires-can last a long time, also look inside dist.cap where rotor can deposit sediment on arc surfaces-clean those, rotor end, make shinny. The usual stuff you probably know.

Edited February 23, 201214 yr by Indrid cold