TurboFlush
Founding Member
I stoped reading this about half way thru, but I have had to deal with timing issues on many cars. one or two being my own, another being a modified BMW, and others.
I found that the first thign to check is your spark plug wire order. on most all 4 bangers it is 1-4-3-2 or 14 she is to young 32 she is to old.
There is a possiblity that your distro could be 180 from its timing. it will backfire and not want to start at all, or if it does you have prolly adjusted the timing very far just ot get it to "run". If the wires are wrong then it will try to start and sometimes start (depends on how badly backwards they are).
It took me a while to understand this, but after awhile you dont even need a book, if you understand that the order must be right and the distro position is irelivant if you adjust everything else acording to it.
Basic steps without the book.
1) plop distro in.
2) adjust the distro finger (cant think of the name) to point to one of the bumps (spark wire conections) on the distro cap.
3) run spark plug wire number 1 (short one) from the distro cap position that we matched up to the first spark plug.
4) then from there run the rest of the wires one by one from the cap to its spark plug. in this order (on the cap Clockwise) 1-3-4-2.
Tada!
If that dosnt work, pul it all apart again and try again. (even the expereinced make mistakes). If all else fails check the base timing of the cam vs. Motor again, and make sure you are using the hard timing marks with the number one piston UP. Hard timing marks are usually a dent in the block and the head, the pulleys have either a gash in them or a arrow casted into them.
good luck.
feel free to contact me if needed.
I found that the first thign to check is your spark plug wire order. on most all 4 bangers it is 1-4-3-2 or 14 she is to young 32 she is to old.
There is a possiblity that your distro could be 180 from its timing. it will backfire and not want to start at all, or if it does you have prolly adjusted the timing very far just ot get it to "run". If the wires are wrong then it will try to start and sometimes start (depends on how badly backwards they are).
It took me a while to understand this, but after awhile you dont even need a book, if you understand that the order must be right and the distro position is irelivant if you adjust everything else acording to it.
Basic steps without the book.
1) plop distro in.
2) adjust the distro finger (cant think of the name) to point to one of the bumps (spark wire conections) on the distro cap.
3) run spark plug wire number 1 (short one) from the distro cap position that we matched up to the first spark plug.
4) then from there run the rest of the wires one by one from the cap to its spark plug. in this order (on the cap Clockwise) 1-3-4-2.
Tada!
If that dosnt work, pul it all apart again and try again. (even the expereinced make mistakes). If all else fails check the base timing of the cam vs. Motor again, and make sure you are using the hard timing marks with the number one piston UP. Hard timing marks are usually a dent in the block and the head, the pulleys have either a gash in them or a arrow casted into them.
good luck.
feel free to contact me if needed.
I've done trips this long before but with school going on it may be impossible for me to do it this time around.
