Timing light

[BillyG]

What’s the best timing light out their for a Alpine?

 

[Barry]

What’s the best timing light out their for a Alpine?

There is nothing unique about checking / setting the ignition timing on Series Alpines, so there is nothing unique about the requirements for a timing light. IMO, a "dial back" timing light makes things a lot easier on any engine.

 

[BillyG]

I too am a life member with agent orange, 101st Airborne 1971…

 

[Barry]

I too am a life member with agent orange, 101st Airborne 1971…

101st Airborne, '69 and most of '70. Welcome home, brother.

 

[BillyG]

Hopefully you’ve received your 100% disability rating! I filed March of 2001 received 100% in November 2002. That’s the only reason I can play with old cars!

 

[jumpinjan]

What’s the best timing light out their for a Alpine?

A Sears/Craftsman Inductive Timing light......from mid-'70s, with the clamp-on plug wire pickup! Best ever made!
Jan

 

[Shannon Boal]

Snap-On! Fox Valley! Sun Instruments! Sears!....If it was me, I would visit yard sales, estate sales, or flea markets. You may find that you must time it by ear......retarding things as needed to prevent pinging.

 

[BillyG]

Thanks

 

[puff4]

A Sears/Craftsman Inductive Timing light......from mid-'70s, with the clamp-on plug wire pickup! Best ever made!
Jan

Yep, that's what I've used for over 30 years.

 

[BillyG]

Thanks

 

[Aladin Sane]

Yep, that's what I've used for over 30 years.

I recently picked one up new unused in the original box at a local estate sale. I will be using it to set the timing on my 302 of I ever get the car back in my garage.

 

[MikeH]

Yep, that's what I've used for over 30 years.

I’ve got one that I bought in the early ‘70s and a dwell tach.

 

[Pete S.]

A Sears/Craftsman Inductive Timing light......from mid-'70s, with the clamp-on plug wire pickup! Best ever made!
Jan

I second that nomination!

 

[BEpine]

Yup, Back in the day when Sears Craftsman tools were made in the USA, not China!!