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funny noises after some timing belt work...



1. idle screws will comes out if the rubber ring at the 
bottom gets tired/broken

2. 8v engine., pull the belt off,  hand turn the cam 
until the dot on the inside teh cam lines up with the 
edge of the (front facing) valve cover then pop the 
distributor cap off and look for a notch on the metal 
edge near the end of the engine block, line the rotor 
dead center on that puppy, next get a ratchet pull sprak 
plug #1 (closest to passenger wheel well) and gently 
drop a long shaft screwdriver until it sit on the head 
of the pioston, grab that rachet and turn the crank 
until the piston is at highest point in movement. slip 
the belt back on whitou moving that distributor cam 
(very easy to move that one) put your tensionner (better 
yet get a new one I bet anything that is the source to 
your whinning noise)back on... pull your timing light 
out, flash the timing hole on the tranny and adjust the 
advance (13mm nut under the distributor) until it is set 
for TDC (dead center of fill hole.) tighten the 
distributor and give her a turen over, check your idle 
screw is not too tight in, or out... set idle.. and 
enjoy, persoanlly I like my 8v to be at 2'-4' advanced 
on tdc with slight right mix 



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ATS - Patrick Bureau
1985 8v Euro GTX 3A/JH Project
1988 16v Euro GT Project
> Hi folks... I just did somethin a little dumb with my
> rocco... I went for a hard canyon drive for about two
> hours, and just before i got home started hearing a
> funny noise that i don't think i can really describe
> all that well. Anywayz, my dad immediatly assumed the
> worst and thought it might be that the timing belt had
> skipped a tooth... but as it turned out, all that
> happened was that my idle screw fell out (wtf?!?).
> Anywayz, i got a new one and put it in, went to put
> the belts back on, and guess what? po musta taken the
> top end apart at some point; The cam sprocket TDC
> marking doesn't match up to the distributor rotor
> (which btw also doesn't match up to the flywheel
> TDC!!!). Anywayz, knowing that it's not an
> interference engine, we just kept moving the belt
> little by little and carefully cranking the engine for
> very short durations till we got it close to right...
> I'm pretty close to just taking it to a mechanic, but
> i wanted to ask here just in case... It's making a
> strange whirring noise (i sprayed the belts with some
> 'moistening' stuff, to no avail), sputtering and
> generally not running well... i think it might be a
> vacuum leak that conveniently hopped on the bandwagon
> as the idle screw popped out. Anywayz, sorry for the
> length of the post, i appreciate any insight anyone
> might have...
> 
> Doruk Seren
> 
> (The Turk!) 
> 
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