Engine Timing Spec Reference

I’ve never had much respect for the Chilton or Climer (sp?) service manuals, once I realized they were nothing more than stolen excerpts from the real service manuals and how they claim to handle all Datsun Z models from 1899-2050 in one book. Talk about cherry picking and massive omissions I thought

Now that the real manuals are available online, I rarely look at them.

However, the other day, I got a Climer manual with a parts horde and happen to flip through it just to see if I was missing anything.

I might have to eat my critical words, when I found a compilation listing of what seems to be ALL the possible timing options 70-78. “Maybe” they did a bit more than just decide which pages of the FSM’s to include.

This was sparked (see what I did there?) by a Z friend with limited Datsun knowledge who was asking me about timing specs for his 71, telling me he looked on line and found really wildly varying numbers and couldn’t decide which one was right.

Well, there you go. the list shows a large variation depending.

PS. It also has a pretty high quality set of schematics for the various years and transmissions all in one place. I read most of the text!

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Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by zKars