Miata Mailing List: February 1999, Message #154

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Previously on Help on Timing, Mark Keough <markkeough@sprintmail.com>
said...

> Today I decided to advance my timing on my 96 Miata. I went to the
> Garage @ Miata.Net.... read everything. Piece of cake..... I have the
> two timing marks (yellow and white) did the jumper thing and checked the
> RPMs - ok. When I moved the sensor to move the yellow mark up two clicks
> to 14 the engine ran fair not great, so I checked the rpm -OK. Took the
> car out for a Test drive ran really rough and the Check Engine light
> came on. I put the timing back to 10 but still the engine light stayed
> lit. I had to disconnect the battery to get rid of the light. I adjusted
> the idle speed to 850 and still ran badly - Finally I moved the sensor
> so that the bottom White timing mark is at 10 and the car runs good!!!
> What am I doing wrong..... everything I read says the Yellow Mark is the
> one you are suppose to use not the White one??????

Yeah, that's what I heard too.  Maybe it's different between the 1.6 and
1.8 engines.  Bottom lines is move the dot that /was/ on 10 up until it's
on 14.

	-John

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John Freas (jfreas@earthlink.net)
Red '90 Base-ish #7690
Birmingham, AL
Team LS1,2, SP, the Gap...
Team dlralt, MRoadster, PBC, Roebuck, Voodoo...
"I have no idea what those dimple things on the windshield frame are for."
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