86 5.0 spout connector

[Homer]

I'm having occasional hot start issues and decided to check the timing to correct or eliminate that as the source of the problem. I was looking for the spout and all indications were that I would find a square grey plastic piece in the end of a 2 wire connector (1st picture)and I couldn't find that. I did locate a round plastic connector with 1 wire entering and exiting (2nd picture) and in researching I located the photo with the round spout. Very little description with the picture other than spout and 460. The 2 pictures were copied from the net and aren't from my vehicle

I'm fairly certain the round thing I located is the spout and the question I have is do I just disconnect it to check static timing?

[Homer]

I found the answer on another board.

[Gary Lewis]

Good!  I was about to see if I could figure it out.  What's the answer?

[85lebaront2]

The round in-line is the earlier style and was also on some of the 300 sixes with the FBC.

[Homer]

The answer was to disconnect the connector and set the timing.

[Gary Lewis]

Yes, that's the way it works.  Thanks for the feedback.

[myrl883]

I'd have to check wiring diagrams, but the shorting bar (Ford's name for the grey connector) is in a different circuit, which you can tell from the red wires. SPOUT is always a yellow wire, usually with a green tracer.