[Vwdiesel] Pump timing/Reading a dial indicator

[James Hansen]

  The pump sprocket mark is aligned with the mark in the injection pump,
just  like it shows in the manual.

  I have not had the injector lines off. I guess that is my next step, to
see if  it is getting fuel.

  I thought that maybe the transmission was changed at some time and the fly
wheel was placed in the wrong position, as this can happen very easily. I
took  out the No.1 injector and glow plug, placed a wire through the swirl
chamber to  the top of the piston to find TDC. When I  found TDC it lined up
with the fly wheel mark, so the mark is correct.

  Does it smoke? No, it just turns over like a car with no spark. It doesn’t
even  try to start.
      Thanks,

  Tim Hicks
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Well, it should run then.

you...er.. didn't knock the wire to the stop solenoid off?
Check that for 12v, and remove and connect it under power- it should audibly
click when power is applied.

If there is no smoke on cranking at all, there is no fuel.
If the glow plugs aren't lit, there will still be lots of smoke.
Pump timing late, (lots) the engine becomes a smoke generator.
Pump timing early, it will lock like a gasser with waaay too much spark
timing advance, but still smoke.
There has to be smoke, you check for that first, that tells you fuel is
there.  No smoke=no fuel.
Valve timing off, it makes expensive clunking noises.
Crank timing off, see above, as they are tied together.
-James
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