'89 200q solved, well er um sort of

[Joshua Van Tol]

On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 09:45  PM, John David Anderson wrote:

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> David Head wrote:
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>> Use the mark on the flywheel... The window is on the bellhousing next
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>> the big honking crank vent hose...
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> This occured to me after I wrote the message, hadn't occured to me
> where it was during the day.
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>> The cam gear mark is the INSIDE mark (closest to the head) and should
>> align with the bottom of the valve cover gasket. The outside mark is
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>> 4 cylinder engines. If you get the distrib off more than 2 degrees it
>> won't start. It will push start though...
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> Ah but David my point here is that I have TWO marks (Dots) on the
> INSIDE of the sprocket, and although one seems near where it should be,
> the car does NOT run with it in the standard 5 cylinder timed position
> in line with the machined surface of the head as you describe, I've
> changed my share of 5 cylinder timing belts here.  Runs like a top
> approximately one tooth off that position though (hovering back above,
> ie counterclockwise looking at the engine head on)  Neither of these
> are marks like on my two EV engines, but those are entirely different
> sprockets for the different belt pitch so go figure.  A couple of the 4
> cylinder sprockets about don't have the two dots either, one does.
> There is absolutely no garantee this is the cam gear that came with
> this engine, that much is assured, I had thought they were all roughly
> the same of course excepting when they changed to the Torque-thrust
> belt.  Anyway I'm pulling the valve cover in the morning and looking at
> the darn cam lobes to see what's what.  I have a position it runs, and
> runs well in, but I don't know if I like it.
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Have you checked that the distributor is timed correctly? If you get it
off kilter, the "window" of the cam reference sensor (in the
distributor) won't cover the pulse from the reference sensor on the
crank. When that happens, the ECU will throw a fault.  The bently has a
procedure for aligning the distributor. Pretty easy to do.

> John
> janders1 at mix.wvu.edu
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