[Vwdiesel] Sandy's connundrum

[Mark Shepherd]

Sandy says...
You mean his FW was installed in holes other than those
intended??
I'm looking for evidence (in absence of a PP assy here at
present) that the
FW can be indexed 60 degrees off. I would welcome some
insight in to how the
idiot did this and ended up with the engine running. I can't
believe he
drilled another hole in the PP assy.

He had to get the engine timed well enough to hand back to
the owner
running, after putting the FW on wrong. That took some
talent. The
calculated 61.8 degree offset suggests he didn't quite get
it right, just
winged it, and the behavior of the injection advance
substatiates this.
I will be striving to get it closer, both cam and pump, but
I have to probe
for TDC to get a starting point.

I don't want to open it up at this time, just change the
belt and tune, but
I have a terrible curiosity to know how idiots get away with
what my father
used to call "hammer mechanics".

I want to know how this was screwed up!

Sandy

On the quantum there are 6 bolts to hold the FW 360deg /6 is
60deg between them...
If one of the gaps is lessthan 60deg then assuming
equalspacing between the others then 61 deg would be quite
possible.
Have you considered that the 'mechanic' may have drilled
nothing but left one bolt out...
Not way off the mark Mark (This time) 8oD