I read some more, I made more phone calls. A non-Delorean owning old friend of mine told me it sounded like my distributor was a tooth or so off. How could that be? Timing light shows 12 or 13 degrees BTDC, rotor was aligned per pictures and advice I was given. What if I set the distributor at TDC on the wrong stroke? The manual says to set it on the firing stroke. I set the engine for TDC. I observed the rotor. It was pointed at the mark on the dizzy body. I bumped it 360 degrees. The rotor was of course 180 degrees away from the mark. I pulled and reset the distributor to the mark on the different stroke. By now it was pouring rain so I didn't have much time to fiddle with it but the initial cranks were encouraging. I had a lot of back-fire where before I had nothing. I -presume- the back-fire means timing is too far advanced. (I had no partner to crank while I adjusted the distributor or checked it w/a timing light) I have the battery charging and hopefully tomorrow will yield more progress. Martin, I didn't try your procedure because it was raining. This was a quick idiot check that I could do in the weather. If this doesn't work I'll fuss with the chains and valves when the weather clears. What do you think about the back-fire? Too far advanced or not necessarily? Thanks, Rich Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=194081.3551198.4824677.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1663535/R=0/SIG=11ps6rfef/*http://www.ediets.com/start.cfm?code= 30504&media=atkins> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=194081.3551198.4824677.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1663535/rand=375089934> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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