Help!!!! i bought a timing light but i have no clue how to use it. if anyone can help i would really apreciate it. tia

Yaniel

Positive lead on positive battery terminal
Negative lead on negative battery terminal

If it is inductive pickup, clamp this around the #1 plug wire.
Check the pickup to see if it has a direction to it (typically a picture of a spark plug with an arrow to one side) and hook it up appropriately.

I had that same problem. I couldn't figure out for the life of me what this little flashing light would do for me. But then it dawned on me as i was walking out to the car to actually attempt to do the timing.

When the engine is running, the pullies are obviously spinning. The crank pulley is marked with little white lines (6 to be exact), but while the engine is running you won't see them with your naked eye. There is a tiny metal pointer right above the pulley. That's your reference point.

After you hook up your timing light via the light's instructions, aim the light at the top of the pulley. Every time those white marks pass the tiny pointer, the timing light will simultaneously flash. The same white mark should consistently pass the pointer at the flash of the light...and you can adjust your distributor to adjust the timing accordingly. Hope this helps!

Yan.
hos much that sht cost ya?
i dunno if it would be cheaper buying the light
er paying 15 bux to get it changed for me...
-Q

the light i think cost me like 25 bucks at discount auto parts

fck it, i'll *** go get it done for me
save me like 10 bux, plus i know
I wont screw it up....:D
thanx playa

You have got to be kidding me.

Why not just pay to have everything done to your car and never have to learn how to do anything at all? You'd have a mAd HiP yO car, but wouldn't know a damn thing about how to fix it if something went wrong. Which, eventually, it will.

Go buy a timing light and learn how to set your timing! You'll learn something new (wow, what a concept), and never have to pay somebody to do it for you ever again.

And if you're really on top of things, you, too, can charge other unsuspecting "enthusiasts" like yourself to do this for them. Thereby, you actually make money and learn something at the same time.

It would be the best $15 you've ever spent on car stuff.

if u want to buy the timing light for me, i would more than
happy to do it myself....i do not have the extra money to spend.
honestly i really dont have the money to get it changed.
I've done almost everything in my car myself *** it was cheaper...
and if my friends asked me to do theres...i'd tell um no
*** i dont wanna be responicble for fckn there sht up.
sorry we dont all have money to do everything like u
obviously do....and yes 10 extra bux is a lot for me
and by the way....keep talkn sht and see how far u get in life
-Q

First off....calm down. There.

Secondly... I figured if you were willing to pay $10-15 to have somebody set your timing for you, then why not go the extra few bucks and get a timing light yourself. I showed you that you could learn how to do it yourself (with the help of us here on the Forum) and make that money back by helping your friends with their timing.

So shoot me.

Thirdly...$25 for a timing light does not signify that one is rolling in the money, like you proclaim me to be doing.

Fourth...I've come further in life than you will ever know. Didn't talk one word of sh!t to get where I am, either. Thank you very much for asking.

honestly man chill out, gregg is a good guy and i think he is giving you some sound advice. instead of paying someone you can have the light yourself and use it as much as you want and stuff, its a good tool to have.
Sean

Hey supersentra! Chill out bro. Greg was just giving some advice. Honestly everytime I have a question he is one of the people I turn to. I know for a fact he will not lead you wrong. I really don't care how you react. Just don't burn your bridges!!! ;)


Slowsentra1.6 drop me a PM we can hook up and I can help you out!!!

Yep! Take a chill pill. SERprise is kind enough to share his knowledge with us and to give some advice on how to make some money while still having fun with our hobby.

We all know that this is an expensive hobby we have. But with a little sharing of knowledge and a lending hand, this hobby becomes affordable and fun.

I need to research on a ghetto filter. *** tHiS cRaP is getting out of hand. How can anyone read your posts? Please save your money for English classes.

sorry if i came out like a dick to u
but it was prettry dick what u wrote too.
yea its tru what u said about the timing light
just right now im having major difficulty
*** $, Greg (SErprize) sorry man, we are all here
for the same reason and the same love
we should keep it that way.
Thanx for the advice, u def. know more
bout the car than I, I shoulda *** listened
rather than kinda blew up sorry again
-Q

Originally posted by SuPeRSenTrA
sorry if i came out like a dick to u
but it was prettry dick what u wrote too.
yea its tru what u said about the timing light
just right now im having major difficulty
*** $, Greg (SErprize) sorry man, we are all here
for the same reason and the same love
we should keep it that way.
Thanx for the advice, u def. know more
bout the car than I, I shoulda *** listened
rather than kinda blew up sorry again
-Q
Yeah what he said... :confused:

Originally posted by SuPeRSenTrA
sorry if i came out like a dick to u
but it was prettry dick what u wrote too.
yea its tru what u said about the timing light
just right now im having major difficulty
*** $, Greg (SErprize) sorry man, we are all here
for the same reason and the same love
we should keep it that way.
Thanx for the advice, u def. know more
bout the car than I, I shoulda *** listened
rather than kinda blew up sorry again
-Q

Dude, can you please use common English? Non-ghetto people have a hard time reading that. This is not Club Si.