Pinging on acceleration.

dhowlan said

I'm not sure if this was mentioned. As you've found real TDC, did that align with tdc mark on the balancer? The balancer can slip when it's old and then the mark is totally unreliable.

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The yellow mark is where TDC for piston 1 is. I'm presuming that's the correct one as it looks like there's a mark on both sides of the balancer. Problem is now, I've got it timed to 0 degrees and it falls on it's face when punching the gas from idle. Revs fine if I start it at maybe a grand, but practically dies otherwise.

While searching the forum, I found you're supposed to remove the compression ring from the spark plugs, which I had not. I've ordered some new tube gaskets since I think they're leaking. I'll check the tubes to make sure I didn't damage anything, remove the rings from the spark plugs and check the timing again.