RE: Resetting Engine Timing

["Brubaker, John" <JBrubaker@AMF.com>]

Shawn wrote:
that's the only one. You will need to dig out a path to the plug and 
also
completely remove the plug. There is a pointer that is cast into the
tranny housing that makes timming the car easy.

OK, OK, I'm curious what you mean by easy.  I know I don't have a lot 
of experience in this case, but on both of the VW's I own, I have 
never been able to get the timing correct by trying to line up the dot 
(on the Tranny housing) and the arrow (on the flywheel).  Now I know 
on my Scirocco, the problem may be that I replaced the 190mm with a 
210mm flywheel from an 83 or 84 (can't remember) GTI; but as far as my 
85 GTI goes, I have no idea what the problem is.  I know this is a 
repair that anyone should be able to do, but to this day I am baffled 
about how to do this correctly.  There was at one time a line on 
disconnecting the DIS box (I have an entire FAQ on this), but I could 
never figure out how to connect the lines going in directly to the 
lines coming out the box, they both were male connectors.  If anyone 
knows the missing step to this magical process I would greatly 
appreciate it (so would my pride and wallet since I have to swalllow 
my ego and pay hard earned cash to have a "pro" do it).

John
80 Scirocco S
85 GTi

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