Whats with my timing...
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Whats with my timing...
Ok well my car has been running just a little off for the last little while. About 1-2 months ago I took off the flywheel inspection plate and reset the timing because I forgot to mark it from my old motor (this is after I put the new motor in) anyways what I am now finding is that I can line up the mark on the dist housing and dist gear perfectly while the front pulley shows the engine at TDC, run the engine for about 2 seconds turn it off pull the distributor again only to find the mark at 180 degrees from where I put it (sometimes less)
Any ideas why its doing this? Timing marks are good for nothing if its messing with me like this grrr, it seems like it should have more power but whats it doing. I pulled the dist about 10 times tonight sometimes when I put it back in (put back in on the mark every time) it would not rev past 2000 rpms and other times it seemed fine until I reved it up... What on earth is this thing doing?
Any ideas why its doing this? Timing marks are good for nothing if its messing with me like this grrr, it seems like it should have more power but whats it doing. I pulled the dist about 10 times tonight sometimes when I put it back in (put back in on the mark every time) it would not rev past 2000 rpms and other times it seemed fine until I reved it up... What on earth is this thing doing?
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Originally Posted by Dan_s_young
Ok well my car has been running just a little off for the last little while. About 1-2 months ago I took off the flywheel inspection plate and reset the timing because I forgot to mark it from my old motor (this is after I put the new motor in) anyways what I am now finding is that I can line up the mark on the dist housing and dist gear perfectly while the front pulley shows the engine at TDC, run the engine for about 2 seconds turn it off pull the distributor again only to find the mark at 180 degrees from where I put it (sometimes less)
Any ideas why its doing this? Timing marks are good for nothing if its messing with me like this grrr, it seems like it should have more power but whats it doing. I pulled the dist about 10 times tonight sometimes when I put it back in (put back in on the mark every time) it would not rev past 2000 rpms and other times it seemed fine until I reved it up... What on earth is this thing doing?
Any ideas why its doing this? Timing marks are good for nothing if its messing with me like this grrr, it seems like it should have more power but whats it doing. I pulled the dist about 10 times tonight sometimes when I put it back in (put back in on the mark every time) it would not rev past 2000 rpms and other times it seemed fine until I reved it up... What on earth is this thing doing?
Last edited by REVHED; Aug 22, 2005 at 06:53 AM.
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so then how are you supposed to know when the distributor shaft is in the proper positon... I don't really trust the timing marks and the butt dyno is iffy... Just kinda getting fed up with the timing not wanting to be bang on...
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I should rephrase what I said in my first post. If you drop it in with the tally marks 90* out it will be timed to the rear rotor. 180* is fine though.
I think you're making this too complicated. Assuming you have the pully on the right way, simply line the tally marks up and drop it in. Then to verify you haven't skipped a tooth, make sure the lobe on the reluctor lines up with the leading magnetic pickup.
I think you're making this too complicated. Assuming you have the pully on the right way, simply line the tally marks up and drop it in. Then to verify you haven't skipped a tooth, make sure the lobe on the reluctor lines up with the leading magnetic pickup.
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