Temporary timing fix

[TeddyXY71]

Here's the deal:

discovered the other day that the vacuum advance on my dizzy is KAPUT! Before I had a chance to consider pulling it to buy a replacement, had my tachometer nicked from my car a couple of nights ago, another expense! Add to that, some outstanding repairs that are required elsewhere on the car are likely to be a little steep. To top this off, January has so far been an expensive month and there's stuff-all of my pay left for other living expenses (I hate monthly pay ) Therefore it may be some time before I can get a replacement vac advance unit. What I want to know is:

Can I artificially advance the timing to compensate a little for the lack of vacuum advance?? The other day I blocked off the vacuum line to the vac advance unit and advanced the standard timing of 6° BTDC to 10° BTDC at an idle of 600rpm. Is that far as I can go? Could I go further?? The car isn't usually driven that hard, its my daily driver to work and back, and will occationally get a run on the Hwy to clear the cobwebs out. The motor is a 1971, 250 cu inch in an XY falcon (if that helps)

Any advice is appreciated.

Regards,

Teddy

 

[addo]

My mate reckons if you put something off, it gets cheaper. I don't agree when it comes to car repairs...

I will LOAN you an unused rebuilt, recurved dizzy until June 30th, on the basis of "you bend, you mend". How's that? You pay postage each way, and get choice of points or electronic.

 

[SONNY]

sounds better than the blocks of land for $1 you dont have to pay a cent,good deal

 

[TeddyXY71]

Sorry for the delay in getting back here. Haven't had a lot of time lately to spend on the the 'net. Thanks for the offer Addo, very generous of you. But I for the moment I think I'll persevere with what I have. Reason being is that I thought long and hard about what you said in the first couple of lines of your post. I decided I REALLY should make an effort to get things repaired and maintained. Actually, I was underneath my old XY looking into a problem with the speedo when I stopped to think about it. When I was under there I had a bit of a look around and found that the dreaded rust I thought would be lurking in more places than I could count wasn't actually too bad. Most of the metal looked in reasonable shape. (either that or the blood was rushing to my head and I was dreaming while wedged in a tight space!! ) It actually gave me a little more hope that the car might (and I stress might....) be saveable and returned to a much better looking and drivable state than it currently is. It sort of made me re-prioritise a few issues with the car and look into fixing things and not letting them go on for WAY too long.

Regards,

Teddy

 

[addo]

That's better.