"I  have heard that you can really screw it up bad if you don't know what
you are doing."
I suppose that's true of just about anything, but particularly true of
eating tacos.
Setting the timing isn't very difficult at all, especially if it's just off
a bit on a running engine. Setting it from scratch on a freshly assembled
engine is a different matter (which may be what you were warned about) but
it's doable.
Find your timing light and give it a go by the book. You'll never know until
you try it.

Good luck,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Benthall" <Taobythesea@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: How Long Does it Take Your Van to Warm up? Cont.

> Hi Folks,
> Well I disconnected my Idle Stabilizer (the one that hooks to the
> firewall,
> not the
> one behind the r. tail light) since I could never feel any vibrations that
> indicated it
> was working...and then quickly reconnected it after engine kept surging
> from
> low
> rpm idle to high rpm idle.  Guess it may not vibrate but it does
> "stabilize
> the idle" ;-)
>
> Now I will take it to my mechanic and have him reset my timing, increasing
> the
> rpm's a bit.  Also have him check the Temp 2.  I actually have an  old
> Snap-On
> timing light around here somewhere and am tempted to try it myself.  I
> have
> heard
> that you can really screw it up  bad if you don't know what you are
> doing.
> Does it
> seem like a hard job to you folks?  Any tips before hand?  Thanks  again.
> James in Houston, Tx.
> 87 Westy (The Phoenix)