Re: Timing belt advance one tooth - impressions.

[Zsolt Kovacs <zsolt@telusplanet.net>]

I'm not a good enough mechanic to do that myself, but my mechanic is telling me
that the marks on my flywheel are at the wrong place. He's thinking that it may
have been changed to a different model's at one point. He said he marked the
locations before taking the old one off and he just put it back the same place.
He is also telling me that if the timing belt is off one tooth the car will
missfire all over the place and it will not run properly. Can someone tell me how
that timing belt advancing should work, and why? Why does it work for some models
and why doesn't it with others?
Thanx
   Zsolt

ikessel@worldnet.att.net wrote:

> Zsolt Kovacs wrote:
> >
> > I just had my timing belt changed in my 86 5k tq and it feels slower. It
> > kind of feels like the turbo cuts in later. Could it be that my timing belt
> > was advanced a tooth before?
>
> Perhaps the other way round? Re-check all three TDC marks for
> compliance.
> If there's a discrepancy between timing marks on the Harmonic Balancer
> and the Flywheel, trust the one on the flywheel.
>
> --
> Igor Kessel
> Two turbo quattros
>
> a4