timing?

[tyfoo]

riped the passenger side carpet up and can't find the wire you disconnect for timing were is it? all i see is a group of wires and antt. wire

 

[syclonekid43]

did you take off the panel where the heater box is?
thats where mine was.
brown with a black stripe

 

[tyfoo]

nope just the plasic on the door side and all the carpet
is the panel were the light is?

 

[syclonekid43]

yeah its the one bolted to the underside of the dash.

 

[tyfoo]

cool thanks.

 

[no_ty_yet]

Can somebody fill me in? What wire under the carpet do you disconnect for timing? Are we talking spark timing?

Thanks,
Galen

 

[TYRODD]

There is a tan wire with a black square connector, disconnect that and you can set your timing correctly.

 

[tyfoo]

got in ther and notice a white wire with a black connector at the end that just hangs .
were does this go?
its next to the light bulb

 

[jwaller]

if you look at the bulkhead connector that goes throught the firewall right by the pass footwell, then you about 6 inches up that pack(towards the ecm) of wires and you will find the tan timing connector with black connectors.

 

[93ty475]

got in ther and notice a white wire with a black connector at the end that just hangs .
were does this go?
its next to the light bulb

that wire goes to nothing...its been discussed before....good luck

 

[toolmann]

i just went through this too...
disco the brown wire BEFORE starting the truck....

my brown wire was tucked up in there good-i had to remove the lower kick panel to find it,but it was there...

T

 

[tyfoo]

found the wire
the bolt that holds the distrbitor hasn't come off in 12 yrs
went and got the special wrench no luck any ideals?

 

[toolmann]

oh yeah...thats a fun one to get at...i have the special gm "s" shaped wrench too and its still a pita...

good luck

 

[dgoodhue]

I couldn't budge my Ty distributor with a the special tool either. I never did change it, but I was going to pull the upper intake so I could get a tool in their properly. I think someone mention about 1/4 drive swivel sockets.

 

[sy112]

getting the distributor loose is a PITA for sure, just got to keep swearing at it till it goes your way. special wrenchs help but it still sucks, piss poor engineering.

as far as the wire hanging, we never did come up with what that was supposed to be used for did we? does anyone have schematics so it can at least say what it does, even if it wasn't hooked up?

 

[tyfoo]

so far i've put cap, rotor, plugs, wires,fuel filter, pan gasket and filter (trans)
timed to zero
adjust tv cable
notice that when i boost the timing up it ran smoother and the rattle in the engine went away sounds great but the rpms were up
adjusted back to zero
can i adjust it so the timing is a degree or two high?
will this afect anything?
it has a light burble in the exhaust every five seconds notice the rpm gauge dies down when this happens
also new tires (the originals were dryroted)
and now i get a faint vibration

 

[tyfoo]

what should my rpm gauge read at idile?

 

[MyTyphoon1993]

Around the 800rpm range in park.

 

[TYRODD]

My truck is stock and in P it idles at 750 perfectly. That "burble" can be attributed to the AC CR42TS spark plugs(stock) that you may have unstalled. I use the NKG-UR5s and they do not miss at all.

 

[syclonekid43]

mine does that with the delcos in there. i screwed up last year and got ur-6 plugs