Over my 50-plus years in the automotive repair industry and as an ASE and General Motors Master Technician and vocational instructor, I have witnessed thousands of new technologies introduced in the ...

When checking ignition timing, initial or base timing is set by physically moving the distributor body to ... need more timing at part throttle but electronic timing control handles that part ...

Older vehicles with distributor-type ignition systems use ignition (or spark plug) wires to send electrical current from the distributor to individual spark plugs, with the timing based on their ...