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Trash the Chiltons. It's in the fsm, either in the fuel section, or maybe engine control.

I just set the throttle cable just short of tight with a warmed up engine at normal idle. The procedure you are trying to do is to set the tps so the idle switch is set right, and you set it AFTER you set the mechanical base idle.

Are you grounding the timing connector before setting the timing?


Hi fasteddy,

I followed the TPS protocol in the FSM. The Chiltons had the same TPS protocol. This was different. I will look again in the FSM but when I looked I could find a reference to it in the index for the fuel chapter but the pages its on are not included....at least I could not find them. I ended up doing what you said. It seems like it is running the way it should as far as idle speed.

I did ground the timing and follow the FSM protocol when setting the timing. Today I checked to see that the #1 cylinder is at TDC and the distributor "marks" on the shaft and case are all lined up. What I found hurt my head. The when the #1 is at TDC the marks on the distributor are not lined up. I think they are 180 deg off. I did not change it because I wanted to get some input. I thought that if the timing was off that much an engine would not start. So what is the deal. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Can my distributor be 180 deg off and have it run. It does not miss or idle rough.