[Vwdiesel] Timing Help please... Roger? Anybody?

[Shawn Wright]

On 4 May 2003 at 1:04, Forrest L King wrote:

> Hey guys, I am finally finishing my 1981 rabbit truck - the engine is in,
> but before we installed it we could not get the timing to read as we
> understood it should.
>
> I was wondering If any of you can describe how to time the engine from
> scratch.   My pump was complately removed from the engine by the P.O and
> now I am wondering if I have the pump timed 180 degrees off.    I have a
> dial indicator, it is in inches, i am looking for a metric one, but that
> is what i have to work with now.

I've used a non-metric one with success before.

> I have an injection pump locking pin, and the cam locking plate.   If you
> could explain this to me in steps it would be great - I have Jack Ewalds
> directions and they don't make sense to me - how the hell can you zero a
> gauge at 1mm?  that's not zero dammit!

What this means is to pick a reference point that is non-zero on the gauge, because
you are searching for a "bump", so the gauge will move above and below zero as you
adjust, so you will lose contact with the plunger if you choose zero as the reference
(when it goes below zero). In other words, anything >0 will work, as you are
measuring the displacement from one point (the reference "zero" point) to another.

Hope this makes sense - it's been a few years since I've done this, so I'm going from
memory.

> Please help - note , I have no tooling knowledge - so if you must make a
> technical reference to pieces of the indicator please describe them so
> that i can understand and learn.
>
> Forrest
>
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Shawn Wright
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