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Re: Unbelievably stupid timing question
Posted by JohnK (more from JohnK) on Fri, 3 Jun 2005 06:48:18
In Reply to: Unbelievably stupid timing question, anonymous & embarassed, Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:51:06
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Your turbo timing is set the old fashioned way, by loosening the distributor calmp and turning the distributor until the timing light is flashing with the scribe mark on the clutch cover lined up at the 16 degrees before top dead center mark on the flywheel.
Get some white out and with the car in 5th gear, push the car forward until you see the scribe marks on the flywheel.
Clean off this section of the flywheel. There is a longer mark every 5 degrees at 0-5-10-15-20. Find the small line one past the 15 degree line and paint it with white out. Also paint the scribe mark on the clutch cover close. This mark should be about in the middle of the rectangular opening.
Then, hook up the timing light to number one plug wire(goes to plug closest to firewall). the light must be inductive, but nearly all recent ones are.
Loosen the distributor clamp bolt just enough so you can turn the distributor with some resistance, so it doesn't flop around and loose your setting. Pull the vacuum line off the dist module and plug it with special tool(golf tee). Start engine and point light at slot and turn distributor until the white marks line up.
Once that's done, if power is still bad and I suspect it will be, you probably have a bad AMM (Air Mass Meter). At least your timing is set right, though.
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