So as the Lockdown caught me without supplies to work on my aircooleds, I have been busy with the thing I should have done years ago,
That would be clean up the garage/workshop and re orginise it now we have more toys in it.
As health and age is against me, the whole thing was taken up as a sweep,
start on one side and just slowly and systematically attack one item as a time.
Clean it find the new place for it to live, remove the junk that is there at that moment, make a junk pile in the middle of the shop.
So when I got to the timing light and dwell meter, I said to my self, ...
" self, remember when all this is done, you need to reset all the timings on all the toys,"
So yes I got stuck into setting timing on the Aircooleds.
Now you may remember that I was not happy with the G Tec electronic timing system
Why you ask, well I landed up with a dead spot at max. rev's
Thought it was the dizzy, and reworked it and yes it did get better.
But on a long drive up a long hill, found it was still there.
There for the want to do timing.
After the setting, still there, so I sat down and inspected all parts with care, and low and behold, I wound it.....
It was my rotor.
The sweeper contact on the edge was too short for the vacuum advance,
The incorrect one...
The correct one ..
so when it got to the high rev's with the mechanical advance, the spark could not reach the contact on the inside of the dizzy cap.
Opened my aircooled spares travel kit, and found the right rotor.
Problem solved.
Had a look at the Fleetline, and same problem, still had one, so thats also fixed.
But where do these incorrect ones come from, not sure if I inherited them over time, or where they in the incorrect box when bought.
So just something to look out for when next I stock up the spares traveling kit.
Till next time
Herman
