[Vwdiesel] TDI timing tools - how to...

[David Cook]

So, do you know 1) if I can use the same dial
indicator as I use with the old diesel engines?  2) 
What the dial indicator would need to read?  3)  Is
the general procedure of turning the engine back and
forth the same?

Thanks,

David


--- James Hansen <jhsg at sasktel.net> wrote:

> 
> > Setting the injection timing is done using
> software. VAG-COM.  Or some other
> > VAG specific software..  No other good way to do
> it..
> > 
> 
> Funny you should mention that.
> Your statement is not as true as you think.
> 
> The local Bosch diesel shop still uses a dial
> indicator on all tdi's 
> except for PD engines.  I'm just following along
> with the guys that know 
> waaaaay more about diesel injection than I'll ever
> know.
> The pump is mechanical.  All the good pumpy bits are
> direct linked 
> mechanically to the motor. There is no electronic
> method of varying pump 
> timing with the pump internals, that's why you need
> to get the timing in 
> the right area of the graph, or ... use a dial
> indicator.  I've checked 
> a couple of their jobs with Vag-com, and they are
> spot on where you want 
> to be, so they aren't just talking out their boots.
> There is a lot of 
> ... stuff... that goes along with the essentially
> direct injection pump 
> that is electronic, but nothing that directly
> changes the initial 
> mechanical timing.  I was rather surprised.
> -james
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