Does anyone know what the timing advance should be at idle speed ?
The doc says the total advance should be about 36° @ 6000rpm but that's kinda hard to check in your garage.
I had an 03 501 once upon a time, and i dont ever recall needing to look into the timing. as a matter of fact, i think the 03 had electric ignition and didnt require timing adjustment. But im not a mechanic. anyway i have seen a cheap RPM meter for bikes somewhere, when it comes to me ill let you know..
Thats it, the trailtech vapour instrument thingy has a rmp mter built in and there are cheaper versions usually on ebay, cheaper vrsions meaning exactly the same product, different paint/name!, much much cheaper.Hope that helps.
Yeah Taffy the lines on mine are out also. Actual TDC is about 7° or so to the right of the other 2 lines when looking at it.
I've scribed another line and wanna put a strobe on it and see where it is at idle speed.
As you know there's not much adjustment anyway but I just wanna check that its not too advanced as I've recently put in a new stator and it's been backfiring a little when trying to start.
I pretty much just threw it in the middle of the slots - similar to where the old 1 was.