Greetings Bill,

Initially, the pump was set at 10-12 degrees BTDC, and she seemed to blow blue smoke on start up, and after it was warmed up, it would puff black during idle speed. Now that I've kicked it back to 15 degrees, it blows a little blue smaoke on start up but goes right away after less than a minute, and doesn't puff black while idling. I was awfully surprised to see it even run at 10 degrees. My next day off is Tuesday, and hopefully weather permitting I can put the tube back on and relay to everyone, just how accurate the Baylor method was, and it will also tell me if I need to pull the IP to realign the timing marks. Is there any gaskets or seals I need to replace if I pull the IP from the engine? Performance wise right now, I have slow acceleration starting from a dead stop, unless of course I somewhat floor it. There seems to be a point of acceleration where it just takes off and goes though, generally after 50MPH at this point. The problem after the 60 MPH point doesn't exist right now. Actually, after 60 MPH it begs to be pushed up to 70 and beyond. It's my lower end acceleration that seems to be a problem, at least I think it's slow off the line. According to some specs I read from a link here on the forum it showed my TD wagon rate of acceleration to be some 20.3 seconds from 0-60 and I get that on my worst day with a 20 mile head wind. I think that one probably should be more like 15 seconds or so. The fuel consumption rate seems to be wrong as well, 23 MPG, get real, I get 26 now and the IP isn't even timed right. I was hoping to get closer to the 30 MPG than anything else.
Bill, I'd appreciate any input you may have on the removal precautions I need to take should I have to remove the IP to reset the aligning marks, as well as any replacemen gaskets etc. I need to get ordered now so I will be ready. Any other benefits I should see out of this beast when I get it timed out right?

Thanks,

Charles