Re: Fw: [T2] Cheap timing light/tach-dwell meter and other tools?

[H Steven Dolan <dworkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Stan Wilder wrote:

> Good old Sunpro!
> Some more of that Chinese made crap.
> Go to a pawn shop and pick up a good used Sun, SnapOn or Allen timing
> light for $20.00
> Timing lights are real cheap since VW folks are the only market for them.

Stan,

If you know a pawn shop that has a Snap On timing light for $20, please
let me know the phone #!!!!  I will call right now to buy it!  A quick
search of *bay tells me the price of Snap On timing lights is closer to
$150/$200, at least if the auction is within a day of closing.  Go there
and search "snap on timing light"

The Sunpro would not do for a professional mechanic, for whom a busted
timing light means losing a day's pay, but for a back-yarder, it is
perfectly adequate.  I have one and have been using it for a year or two.
The pickup is held together with duct tape, as I keep busting it up, but
it tapes rather well and keeps on flashing.  When the bulb goes, I will
toss it and buy another.

                           Steve Dolan

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>
> Stan Wilder
> 83 Air Cooled Westfalia
>
>
> Volks,
>
> Thomas has an excellent set of points. (and a good condensor, too :-)
> Some additions:
>
> This is fine for a type1 engine, thru '71 in the U.S.  If you have a
> type4
> engine, tho, you really need a timing light.  Sunpro makes one that is
> fine for our application.  A quick search on the internet turns up a post
> on the Miata list (http://www.realbig.com/miata/miata/1998-01/3887.html)
> that sez you can get them at western auto for $29 or thereabouts.
>
> Second, Barry Burneskis found someone who was selling a sunpro ignition
> analyzer for ~$15 that included V-O-M and dwell functions, a longtime
> dream of mine!  I piggybacked on his order, so I don't know the source...
> Barry?
>
> Third, If you have a V-O-M and don't have cash, you can set dwell using
> it
> as a dwell meter by setting it to low DC volts, connect the red wire to
> the condensor lead on the coil, the black to the engine case or body
> (ground) and then look for 6.67 volts, which translates to 50 degrees of
> dwell while cranking or running.
>
>
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