Timing on 1972 350 Olds ?

I have my car on jack stands i changed the flywheel and and i changed both starters and both of them stick. I changed the fitting on the wireing and both wires are well set. I put 1/8 washers on my old starter and it was late i turned the engine over and i belive i saw the silenoid. Disengage. But my batterie died so ima give it a try again. Today

So olds timing advance it until it pings then back it off until it cranks. I like it!

I have ran 60 degrees part throttle on low compression Olds V8 with no pinging.

Dodoes anyone have the spark. Plug wiring diagram for an olds 350. My car starts fine now but wen i run it at a stop my carb pops and dies.

How fast is your idle set at? If it idles in park smoothly, it is something else. The firing order is 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 rotating counter clockwise.

Everything starts fine but wen i drive it at times my carb would pop and die my all vacume ports are conected no leak. starts fine but for some reason my carb pops idles at 800 rpm then drops to 600 rpm n pops. Timeing is fine everything starts fine i just dont know why it pops

On the distributore which would be my #1 and #8 post to start the wireing or is there a picture diagram somewhere

355boy said:

On the distributore which would be my #1 and #8 post to start the wireing or is there a picture diagram somewhere

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Straight outta my haynes manual. But it can be wherever you want it to be. The #1 piston has to be at TDC on COMPRESSION stroke (both rockers would be loose, as both valves would be closed, should be zero on the balancer), and the rotor tang has to be coming up on the post you want to be number 1, as in before the post. You can sometimes see the piston through the spark plug hole, alternatively put a wire hangar in the hole and watch as it rises and falls with the piston. Once it reaches peak travel, and both valvesa re 100% closed, that should be at or near TDC.

And the rest of them would follow the firing order CCW, the same way the distributor rotates. 1 8 4 3 6 5 7 2.

What is your timing set at? It sounds like it is either running lean, timing retarded or a vacuum leak. Bump it closer to 1000 rpm in park. Adjust the mixture screws to the highest vacuum or rpm as well.