Timing tape

[Dino]

I do have a dial back timing light but I'm still installing timing tape. Do these stick well to paint? It'll be fresh paint, no grease or grime to be seen!

Anyone have a favorite? They're all functional but might as well get the purdiest right?      

[tan top]

I tried everything  , still flew off , even repainted the balancer & stuck the tape to the wet paint    ended up taking balancer off yet again &  marking & painting my own timing marks 

[BSB67]

I do have a dial back timing light but I'm still installing timing tape. Do these stick well to paint? It'll be fresh paint, no grease or grime to be seen!

Anyone have a favorite? They're all functional but might as well get the purdiest right?      

Early on, I had timing tape failure, as I think many people have.  I now have two balancers that have had the tape on them for 25 plus years.  This is what I did with these. 

1) Painted the balancer.
2) baked it in the oven at low temp to cure the paint
3) lightly sanded the area that the tape was to be applied
4) Solvent cleaned the applied area.
5) Trimmed the tape so that it would not overlap onto itself
6) Applied the tape.
7) Clear coated the tape and balancer
back in the oven.

[Dino]

I tried everything  , still flew off , even repainted the balancer & stuck the tape to the wet paint    ended up taking balancer off yet again &  marking & painting my own timing marks 

I thought about making marks myself.   

I do have a dial back timing light but I'm still installing timing tape. Do these stick well to paint? It'll be fresh paint, no grease or grime to be seen!

Anyone have a favorite? They're all functional but might as well get the purdiest right?      

Early on, I had timing tape failure, as I think many people have.  I now have two balancers that have had the tape on them for 25 plus years.  This is what I did with these. 

1) Painted the balancer.
2) baked it in the oven at low temp to cure the paint
3) lightly sanded the area that the tape was to be applied
4) Solvent cleaned the applied area.
5) Trimmed the tape so that it would not overlap onto itself
6) Applied the tape.
7) Clear coated the tape and balancer
back in the oven.

That sounds like a plan.   

Most tapes come in either white on black or yellow on black. I would think white is easier to see with the timing light but I could be wrong. The Mopar Performance tape gets bad reviews in that it doesn't seem to stick too well, but it's only a few reviews so who really knows.

The Summit tape seems alright. Do you have any preference?

[c00nhunterjoe]

Seems like alot of work for something you really only do once. I use a dial back light or measure the desired distance back on the balancer and scribe a mark.

[Scaregrabber]

I check tdc and paint a mark then I go 2 1/8 or 2 1/4 (Hemi or Wedge) And paint another mark. I can usually figure out the 180 marks close enough for valve set.

Sheldon

[flyinlow]

Buy a white and a red touch up paint. Mark TDC white, 30* white and 40* red    (damper diameter X 3.14 div. by 36.   take that # and multiply by 3 for 30* and by 4 for 40*) measure from TDC.

Set all in timing at what ever runs best for you engine between the white and red marks.