Re: Resetting Engine Timing

[skerocdriver@juno.com (SHAWN C MEZE)]

>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.


On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:21:17 -0400 "Brubaker, John" <JBrubaker@AMF.com>
writes:

>OK, OK, I'm curious what you mean by easy.  


What I meant was that if you are to try and set the timming of the motor
by just pulling out the little plug,  you will have a very rough time
doing it. (Visually) I was suggesting that if you just fully unscrew the
whole plug from the tranny it would aid in seeing what you were doing.
Also if you are to mark the timming points on the flywheel and the "V"
pointer on the bell housing with some bright paint it will also make it
easier to see. 


>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).


The only advice I can offer up is to know what it is your looking for
when setting the timming. If you have the 210mm flywheel there should be
the 0 deg TDC mark and to the left of it a "V" notch cut into the
flywheel. This is the 6 deg BTDC marking for the stock timming. If your
one of the lucky ones with the adjustable timming lights you can set
fairly accurate whatever advance you want with just using the 0 TDC
mark.. If not then just use the "V" mark. 

You don't have the digitrash system so there is nothing to disconnect.
Just check your timming and adjust as needed. Make small adjustments,
wick the throttle a few times and let the throttle stabilize and check
the timming again. The timming will bounce around a little bit. I've
never seen it rock on steady. 
 

              Shawn Meze
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