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My car shows 93% timing modulation. We had a lengthy post on that and finally got yr advise to do the chains.
Do not misunderstand I,m just trying to learn something here, in general on EDC.
Going back to our discussion, if a car starts on the dot when cold we can assume the static timing has no issues and also glow cct and extrar fuel is there.( no timing advance required or provided). Hence, no stretched chains , right?
If the same car has hot starting issue, can we say it is the chains? Do stretched chains has its effect multified with a hot engine?Starting when hot with the 'hot start kit', cold scenario is created and the car starts. So, if the hot start issue is due to strtched chains which retarded timing, how come its cured just by the cold start scenario.? My point is that cold start scenario does not include any timing advance, as explaind by you previously, so it could not provide any timing advance when evoked with a hot engine. So if the hot start issue is due to retarded timing( due to stretched chains or any other), cold start scenario can,t help it though practically it helps.
Regd s
NO, you are not listening are you. If the timing device is using 93% of it's available scale at idle to correct the point of injection. Then the static timing is retarded. Simple as that. Unless someone has made a complete balls up of doing static timing at some point, the bottom chain at least has stretched to cause that. The null point of the timing device with correct static is 50%. If the percentage was below 50% at idle, the timing device would be correcting over advanced static, if it is over 50% at idle, it is correcting retarded static. As i said a long time ago, get your static set correctly, get your injectors serviced. I would check the chains for peace of mind before the bottom one breaks and puts you in deep shit. When i did my chains the bottom one was worn but nothing like as bad as the cam chain which had serious toothache. I can only advise i cannot do the job for you.
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