On 08/29/2015 02:49 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:
Moving back little more, carb. and point and rotor cap time.
Adjusting dwell and timing with strobe light. Back little further
wrestling with generators, electro-mechanical regulators....
playing with carb. floats, tweaking mixture adj. screw, etc.
Today's cars are running much hotter than olden days. (more efficient)

It kept things interesting... I remember one Buick 225 in particular.
The timing mark was on the crankshaft pulley as usual. However to reduce
vibration, the outer part of the pulley was isolated from the hub by an
elastomer ring. Get everything lined up, goose the engine, and the mark
would move since the elastomer bond had failed.