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OBX FSJ
10-01-2002, 12:24 PM
OK as I previously whined about I tore the old girl down for no frickin reason due to an oil leak. Yeah.LOL, thanx. So, anyway I get her back together plus the tons of stuff we always have to route a kitchen pass to buy when "trouble"strikes. I mean the wife thinks I'm a genius for getting it running. Can't let her know I'm the idiot who did the Jeep wrong in the first place. My question, well its not a question just I didn't know this was possible.
RUN THE DAMPNER AROUND TO TDC
DROP IN THE DISTRIBUTOR WITH ROTOR POINTING TO #1
PLUMB UP PLUGS, CROSS FINGERS....RUMMMMBLE
COOL, LET'S CHECK TIMING..DOOOe!
THE LIGHT IS MARKING BACK OF THE BALANCER
CAN THIS BE.
I FIGURED I HAD A 50/50 SO IF NO GO JUST TWIST
HER AROUND ONE MORE CRANK AND PRESTO.
YET, THERE SHE IS RUNNING 180 OFF
RUNNING WELL TOO.........Great Googley MoogleyGreat Googley MoogleyGreat Googley Moogley?
GEMOBX GO AHEAD AND LAMBAST AN O'COCK'R!
Rogue
10-01-2002, 12:59 PM
sure you're not lining up #8, or hooking timing light up to #8
porchpiggy
10-01-2002, 01:40 PM
Easiest way to do it if you can't see any of the innards: remove sparkplug #1. Turn crank by hand until you feel the air coming out of the sparkplug hole, you are feeling the compression during the compression stroke. Right at the last of the air coming out look at the timing mark, it will be close to TDC.(If not you are totaly screwed, onthe wrong cylinder, someting amiss.) Set your crank to tdc and position the rotor to #1 or a little before in the rotation. Fire it up and tweak it out. ;)
Rogue
10-02-2002, 04:01 AM
not that there is anything wrong with what was said just something that happened to me once - but i doubt it is what you are experiencing. i had timed an engine as described with the ol finger in the hole trick - problem was the exhaust lobes were worn off the cam - so? you might say!? well i was getting 2 "compression" strokes per revolution. i beat my head against the wall for an hour cause i knew i did it right! so like always i went back to the basics - pulled the valve cover to verify by rocker arm position where exactly the compression stroke! low and behold the exhaust valve wasnt opening! if i would have done it the "right" way to begin with i would have saved myself much frustration and found the problem to begin with