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Setting Ignition Timing With a Strobe Light

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Piki:
Yes, I just upload one PDF about it, look my last post!!!
Sorry for my English.

Lynx:
Hi Piki,

Where is the PDF?

Piki:
Is a Post called HONDA FOUR SERVICE in MISC/OPEN.

Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP):
Bryan,
If like me you in previous years attended a Honda course was your course different to mine.The Honda training guys showed us on the course that using a strobe light was the best way of doing it For all Honda bikes so I don't know where you get your ideas from can you explain more for me as I am trying to remember all I was taught?I know about the dwell etc but for years have I practiced something the manufacture taught me and now is wrong.
Cheers
Bitsa

Bryanj:
I did the training in the 70's and was told to set the gap with feelers, the timing static with a bulb and then check the advancer with a strobe BUT you had to be good with feelers to get the gap right (and have a set with a 14thou one!) have patience and practice to get gap and timing right at the same time and to be honest unless a problem was reported by the customer rarely bothered to use a strobe as it took too long to set up the Honda box!--likewise the dwell box

i always found that the advancer started opening very early so using a strobe set the timing advanced but still in the marks on full advance.

You have to remember I was apprenticed in 69 and brought up on old Fords to the extent that i proved to an apprentice in the 80's who tried to tell me it was impossible to set points and timing without a dwell box and a strobe that i could do an essex v6 (capri 3.0) in half the time it took him and get better results.

A dwell box and strobe may well be easier for someone who does not do the job often but seems like witchcraft to this old timer mate

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