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[wilf]

Evening folks, I've just fitted Tinker with electronic ignition,and owing to a gammy leg haven't tried starting her yet. I set the new back plate pretty well on the half way mark on the adjuster slots,which approximates to where the old points cam follower was. Am I right in assuming this will be near enough to start her? I shall have a go at dynamic timing once she is running, unless the forum thinks trial and error will suffice. It's the basic Eureka system by the way.
All comments, as ever,graciously recieved.

[Exile]

Hi Wilf.. I'm considering doing the same on my Bullet 500. I haven't made the final decision yet..


Regarding set up, see the tech notes on this forum. It explains how to set the timing marks up and so on.

Link here

[wilf]

Sorry for taking so long to reply. The gammy leg felt good enough to try kick starting Tinker this evening so I gave it a go. She fired up after about four tries and ran OK except for a bit of popping in the exhaust when I came off the throttle. I tossed a coin and decided to advance the timing a tad, which seems to have sorted things. She now starts first or second kick (still a bit tentative with the leg!) and after a short run of a mile or so seems to be running very sweetly. I pulled away from walking pace in third gear with no sign of pinking and raced her a bit in second with no I'll effects. So-----
Working on the principal of if it ain't broke, don't try and fix it, should I go to the trouble of dynamic timing?
All comments would be most welcome.

[Scalyback]

You might find a better timing position, but if she runs as well as you think she should, then I wouldn't Tinker (sorry, just had too!)