Timing & Pinking on a B18b

[A Sherratt]

Whilst the weather 's been fine I decided to do some tinkering on my P1800s (1968). She's only been on the road two months after a lay-up of ten years or more.

She was suffering from pinking on the hills and so after reading the 'haynes' manual i decided to retard the ignition timing as detailed in the manual.

Anyways, the pinking has now gone but my timing gun now says the ignition is set at 1 degree. She starts up first time every time and runs lovely, however, I am concerned that by altering the timing so much I may suffer further problems in the future!!!

Any thoughts????

I know the timing gun is spot on as I have used it on other cars. The only other answer may be that the marks are out on the flywheel!!!

Adrian