Specs for OLD Lincoln

[Bill89LSC]

Would anyone happen to have the tune up specs for a 69 Continental with a 460? A friend of mine is restoring one and had it on the road for the first time in 8 years this weekend. Ran pretty good but definitely needs the tune and carb dialed in.

[lairdt]

Would anyone happen to have the tune up specs for a 69 Continental with a 460? A friend of mine is restoring one and had it on the road for the first time in 8 years this weekend. Ran pretty good but definitely needs the tune and carb dialed in.

Believe I have the basic specs in a Chilton book, but tune up specs for a '69 won't get you too far on todays gas. Baseline what you've got and then see where it needs to go for the gas (91/92/93oct) in your area. I've been going through this same thing with my '70 Merc.

[pro-five-oh]

Would anyone happen to have the tune up specs for a 69 Continental with a 460? A friend of mine is restoring one and had it on the road for the first time in 8 years this weekend. Ran pretty good but definitely needs the tune and carb dialed in.

Ok, I finally found it in an OLD auto mechanics textbook I have.

Breaker point gap: .017
Spark plug gap: .034
Breaker point opens 10 degrees BTDC

Best of luck!

[Bill89LSC]

Thanks for the info!

[Steve Moran]

I was going to say that if you have the plug gap the breaker gap is always half of that. dwell is most often +10 degrees on most all points type ignitions.

[purelux]

Being a 70 wouldn't it be designed for leaded gas? Also possibly even higher octane, so booster may be needed too. I know leaded gas i.e. sunoco cam2 etc... is insainly expensive. However lead addative is not and from what I've seen helps quite a bit. My friend had an old lemans and when he ran low-lead avation fuel or lead added to 93 oct it ran much better than pure unleaded. Idle espically was much smoother, also power was notibly increased. Even my buddies old moped which says do not use unleaded gas definatly needs leaded or addative. His father knew this however my friend and his sister didn't realize the importance. After adding the "lead" it ran quite a bit better. While it is a moped before the only time the engine ran that fast was when going downhill.

[pro-five-oh]

Many cars had the conversion to run on unleaded. (valvetrain?) Odds are if its still on the road and not a 1000 mile original car sitting in shrink wrap, its been converted.