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Not quite the same, but this is the best I got. You don't think anyone else has a refractometer?

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To be fair... even in the days of dwell meters, very few knew what dwell was or what it did.
What you REALLY wanted was the Sun machine with an OSCILLOSCOPE... OOOH AHHH. Great big CRT thing that had it's own time zone and ate the power of a small city... but you could see cam lash... OOHHH AHHHH. I remember thinking I was Einstein with all this computing power... probably 8K.
But I betcha I can find 6 shops that still have this equipment AND still know how to use it.
Do YOU know someone that can tune Crower mechanical injectors? I do.
Or the Bosch mechanical FI system found on a '59 SL300?
Need the brakes done on your '49 Bentley Mark VI? I got a guy.
I got a guy for that too. He's getting old and the drink has worn him down some, but still a wizard. One of the few around that can overhaul a Rocher Ramjet.

This what you're talking about?
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Not quite the same, but this is the best I got. You don't think anyone else has a refractometer?

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Standard size transport truck axle nut socket.

None in my box, I have the rachet -- but not the socket. I'm out for this one.
 
He's getting old and the drink has worn him down some
Is he BOB? The only ones (AFIK) running crowers around here is BOB and a guy in southwest Ontario with a ol Impala (that seems to break down a lot)
This what you're talking about?
Yep, Crower PILLS. Did you pick that image off google? ... it would take me a minute or two to find some Crower pills, it's not something people have just kickin' around.
... but then possession of pills don't make you a tuner
 
How did a scope show cam lash? I have a scope but thankfully, I havent needed it for vehicles.
Trace crank rotation on A
Trace ignition timing on B
Overlay and when you fiddle with the throttle you can see the timing rolling back and forth: cam lash.
Scopes are REAL handy, more so now with auto lan. You can get a cute lil' scoping meter for a couple hun these days. Lots and lots of PWM stuff these days... on everything.
 
Trace crank rotation on A
Trace ignition timing on B
Overlay and when you fiddle with the throttle you can see the timing rolling back and forth: cam lash.
Scopes are REAL handy, more so now with auto lan. You can get a cute lil' scoping meter for a couple hun these days. Lots and lots of PWM stuff these days... on everything.
I see. Drive lash (and/or camshaft twist). I was thinking you had some voodoo to check rocker lash (which may be possible with accelerometers, crank position sensor, ignition pickup and a crapton of filtering/analysis).
 
Is he BOB? The only ones (AFIK) running crowers around here is BOB and a guy in southwest Ontario with a ol Impala (that seems to break down a lot)

Yep, Crower PILLS. Did you pick that image off google? ... it would take me a minute or two to find some Crower pills, it's not something people have just kickin' around.
... but then possession of pills don't make you a tuner
LOL. Yes, the pic was from Google, I doubt more than a handful of people in Ontario would have Crower experience -- most would be dead by now.

My guys is named Met (Turk to his friends). Not sure if he did Crowers, but he was great with Rochecter Ramjets, 50-60s era Bosch and Lucas systems. He did a lot of driveability work on vintage fuel injected exotics, shops would do the heavy lifting and call him in for tuning and troubleshooting. He was the first ZR1 driveability tech in southern Ontario, the only one for the first year Zr1s. He taught FI for GM tech school and the FI repair and tuning course at Seneca. For a long time he was the chief mechanical builder at Carvaggio.

Sadly father time has caught up with him. Brain still good, body's in the shape of a 20 year old taxi.
 
No I don't know why it looks like that, I'll wipe it down lol

Edit: Huh, that does not wipe off. Guess something reacted/etched the surface at some point and didn't notice it before. Oh well, not bothered about it
 
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