# Timing

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/timing/58661>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** ford\
**Created:** [December 13, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/timing/58661 "2010-12-13T19:26:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dannyway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@dannyway](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dannyway)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/timing/58661/1 "2010-12-13T19:26:45Z")

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I’d like to fine tune the timing on my '64 ford galaxie but noticed there are missing marks. according to the shop manual there should be a pointer with 3-4 marks, one of them being TDC. all I have on mine is a pointer, with no marks. how do I set the timing? I have a gun that I some how came across and now own. also, I’d like to fine tune my carburator. all I know is that it’s a four barrel edelbrock.

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**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/timing/58661/2 "2010-12-13T19:30:15Z")

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Clean the harmonic balancer off. Odds are the balancer is marked and those marks are covered over by paint and grunge.