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

[gary]

Forrest,

Like others have said, #1 at TDC, Cam verified with lock bar. AND...

Injection pump: There is a notch in the face of the pulley. There is a
notch in the pump mount plate. There is a pointer of sorts on the front
snout of the pump case. Line all of these up and you should damned
close. When I swapped pumps on my old Quantum TD, I forgot to roll the
pump back to line them up. It will be about 90* off at rest.

Now, install timing gauge. Roll the engine by hand until the gauge is at
a minimum reading. Set your gauge face to "zero". Turn the engine back
to TDC, #1 or #3, it doesn't matter. Rotate pump body accordingly to
achieve desired timing.


-Gary in Orlando




On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 02:04, 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 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!
>
> 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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