Timing the cam - what about the intermediate shaft tocrankshaft?

[sukchew at cox.net (Chuck Blue)]

Pretty damnm good Karl. Now how about locating and marking the fly wheel off 
of a ? non a aba engine.on an aba engine.
ole blue
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Krupke" <kkrup62@hotmail.com>
To: <Eeffinger@conestogac.on.ca>; <verboten1@gmail.com>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Timing the cam - what about the intermediate shaft 
tocrankshaft?


> Hi Ed,
>    Really fuzzy memory of a '79 that went through a couple of belts... 
> seems I remember the procedure as setting all shaft timimg from the front 
> of the engine; the cam shaft mark lined up at the edge of the head, crank 
> & intermediate shaft marks adjacent to each other with another mark on the 
> 'cover plate' between them.
>    Sorry I can't think of what it's properly called, and my Bentley is 
> miles away right now... but if you visualize the two pulleys are like 
> this>  O O
>
> then the piece that has the mark on it is shaped sort of like this> )( 
> between the pulleys,
>
> resulting in anarrangement sorta like this> O)(O , with a little dot 
> stamped in the middle of the )@( [note: this is all so not to scale].
>
>    So... top, bottom, and ignition all gotta be in synch, right? Using all 
> three timing marks means crank is set for #1, cam for #1, and spark for 
> #1; all as it should be.
>    Dan wrote that the "absolute position of the auxilary shaft isn't 
> important" which is correct; so long as your distributor rotor is lined up 
> on #1 it's where it should be for the engine to run.
>    But bear in mind that the distibutor CAN be rotated almost a full 360 
> degrees (I think the vacuum advance/retard bumps into the block at some 
> point, so the range excludes a short arc).
>    If there wasn't a mark for the aux shaft, you could possibly (easily) 
> have the aux, and thus the distributor, out of time. Which is easy enough 
> to correct, just twist the distributor to the right place, unless it's in 
> that "no go" range I mentioned...oops, right?
>    Also, all the cables and vacuum lines are designed to mount with the 
> distributor within a certain range of arc.
>    So, that's why there's a timing mark on the aux shaft. Hope this is 
> helpful.
>
> Karl
>
>>From: "Edward Effinger" <Eeffinger@conestogac.on.ca>
>>To: "Verboten1" <verboten1@gmail.com>
>>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>>Subject: Re: Timing the cam - what about the intermediate shaft 
>>tocrankshaft?
>>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:53:48 -0500
>>
>>Thanks for your reply.
>>I wonder then why they put a timing mark on the crankshaft/intermediate
>>shaft?
>>Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>>Ed '81S
>>
>
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