[Vwdiesel] Timing

[LBaird119@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/16/2005 11:57:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
slatersfb at aol.com writes:

> After 2 years hillbilly tuning, I put a dial indicator on the pump just to 
> see where she ended up: one point one millimeters before TDC. This car is my 
> daily driver used mostly for high speed operation. As Hagar says, this timing 
> is for my car only (91 Jetta 1.6 N/A); another may be different. My 81 pick 
> up (1.6 N/A) finds this timing (1.1 mm) to be too far advanced. For the pick 
> up I ended up at one point oh. 

  So basically you've simply advanced the pump timing .1mm in each case.  
The '91 would most likely be a 1.0mm std timing @TDC and the '81 would be 
.88mm or  maybe .95mm.  My experience shows the 1.0 pumps TD or not 
tend to be less tempermental about timing variations than the .95mm pumps. 
.88 and Yellow dot pumps are farily flexible too.  
  I've seen YD pumps timed to .88mm.  They run fine, just don't start quite 
as well and don't get in any hurry driving one.  Finding out how to identify 
one with the paint gone and setting it properly (to make REALLY happy 
people) put my up the second step to guru status.  ;-)
     Loren