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How to set timing on 1987 Suburban?

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1987 Chevrolet Suburban, 5.7 V-8 Throttle body, non HEI. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I removed the distributor and did not mark location. It has not been turned over since reinstalled. I replaced spark plugs and wires. Each one at a time.

  • It really depends on what you did to need to set the timeing. If you never moved the distributor then you should never need to adjust it at all. If you moved the distributor then you will need to put it back in close to where it was originally. This involves finding TDC (top dead center) compression on your #1... Read More
  • I assume you took the old one off for some reason and now you cant get it back on right? Well The best advice I can give you is get a vehicle specific repair manual that's the easy way out. But if your in a hurry look for a mark on the front of the engine usually an indention and the there is a mark on the sprockets... Read More
  • if you remover only the distributor cap, it should be easy. There is a brown wire that runs from the distributor to a panel on the Passenger side of the firewall, it is held on by wing nuts. unplug the brown wire and set timing with timing light, then reconect wire and your good to go.
  • You cannot set timing it is automatically adjusted by the computer.
  • With the EST wire un hooked, set timing to 0* using a light Then plug EST wire back together
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