Timing is fixed - it can't be changed - unless the flywheel key has sheared (usually after impacting some immoveable object such as a tree stump) - in which case, it's unlikely to run at all. Whatever your problem is, it's not likely to be a timing issue.
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Phil Saunders
June 2011
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