Thread: 30 degrees of advance at idle?

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screw piston stop into your number 1 spark plug hole, turn engine by hand until the piston hits it and you cant turn it.... make a mark on the balancer where the pointer is pointing, turn it the opposite direction until the piston gets stopped again, and make a mark on your balancer where the pointer is pointing, then measure with a precision measuring device such as a quality seamstress measuring tape and mark exactly dead center of those two marks, and thats your true top dead center mark

take note that it doesn't matter weather you are on compression or exhaust stroke seeing as the mark will always be in the same spot in relation to piston position regardless of valve train..... if your timing mark is off, buy timing tape for your size balancer and you'll have nice quality timing marks that are easy to see.....

and yes it sounds like your static timing may be a little retarded, which will cause engine to not run well or at all with out some advance added to it.... check with the piston stop and add the timing tape to be able to get here better in sync