lx5.0

ok so i was trying to time my car and i have a black balancer but when i try to put light on balancer one moment i see numbers and then all of a sudden i just see the light flashing on black then all of a sudden they come back it keeps doing that back and forth i dont get to see the numbers how im suppose to with light what could this be a sign off

1988TTOP

use white chalk or white paint to mark what u want to to be timed at

mstngsule68

use white out, works good

lx5.0

i already have a line marked where i want but my timing would never do that its like all of a sudden i can see numbers then they disappear and im looking at another part of the balancer then all of a sudden i see them again like if its jumping back and forth from a blank spot on balancer to timing marks

lx5.0

i dont remember it jumping back and forth from one spot to timing marks like that before

mstngsule68

bad balancer then,

NotchAbove

Did you pull the spout out ?

lx5.0

yeah i pulled spout and my balancer is new just replaced like 1 month ago would a bad distributor cause this

AdderMk2

yup... could be a bad cap and rotor too.. the timing light will only flash when it see's spark travel down the #1 wire

lx5.0

cap and rotor are new also, the light on timing stays flashing it never goes out its just weird that im flashing timing light to pointer looking at numbers then all of a sudden its flashing on another spot of balancer then like a second later timing numbers jump back in again