On lesser vehicles I used to s
On lesser vehicles I used to simply hold the plug wire near a ground source and watch/listen for sparks. It seems if you grounded the wire you'd be shorting it out and get no spark. But if the timing light is in series wouldn't it show the pulse? Hmmmm......of course working by yourself makes things a big difficult to crank the key and be in the engine bay at the same time. If nothing else you could put just the plug in each cylinder that your testing, one at a time, and leave the others out to ease the load on the starter. That way you could hook up the timing light in normal fashion.
Sheesh....I'm really not much help here am I?
On lesser vehicles I used to simply hold the plug wire near a ground source and watch/listen for sparks. It seems if you grounded the wire you'd be shorting it out and get no spark. But if the timing light is in series wouldn't it show the pulse? Hmmmm......of course working by yourself makes things a big difficult to crank the key and be in the engine bay at the same time. If nothing else you could put just the plug in each cylinder that your testing, one at a time, and leave the others out to ease the load on the starter. That way you could hook up the timing light in normal fashion.
Sheesh....I'm really not much help here am I?