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Re: Um timing with new head snags





--- aventari <aventari@netzero.net> wrote:
> At 09:13 PM 1/11/00 EST, you wrote:
> >    OK well I have the new head on and the block (
> hole on top of tranny )
> is 
> >top dead center. and the cams are instaled at zero,
> But the cam gear says
> I'm 
> >way ahead of zero. What do I do here. Do I bolt it
> up set the gear to zero
> to 
> >match the block then tighten it up? 
> 
> are you sure the TDC  mark on the cam gear you're
> looking at is the one on
> the _inside_ of the gear? I've got a gear from a
> newer engine (when they
> switched to the lighter gears) and it has three(!)
> marks on it, the
> _correct_ on the inside of the gear, the wrong one
> on the outside, and
> another one on the outside that doesn't look like a
> dot in the metal, but
> like a dash with two leters around it (I or E or
> something). Just be sure
> what your looking at! :)
> 
> You can't install the cam gear in the wrong
> position, unless you didnt put
> the woodruff key in cam! Oh crap, please tell me you
> didn't do that! :)
> dont run the motor if you forgot the key, otherwise
> the valves might hit
> the piston when the gear slips. (depending on your
> engine)
> 
> HTH!
> 
> kevin fry
> 81 scirocco turbo-no-more
> 
> >
> >    Sorry Guys I lost my Bently book a few months
> back and haven't gotten a 
> >new one. Can anyone send me the Cyl head install
> pages for a 16v.
> >
> >Thanks
> >~Danny~
> >88 16v 
> >
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