Hi Chad, I don't think your mechanic would agree to setting it at 6 degrees before TDC anyway, because he would be held liable for possible damages. He may agree to set it a couple degrees ahead of stock? A vanagon would be a good canidate to learn mechanics on. But the aircooled VW's that I learned on are cheaper and didn't have water cooling to mess with when I had to pull the engines to fix my screw-ups. Happy Travels, Mark Ingalls
>From: "Chad" <groch@worldchat.com> >To: "Mark Ingalls" <ingalls_mark@hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: Engine Timing >Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:18:55 -0400 > >I guess I went over my own head with the original question I asked. I >don't >know anything about timing. To be honest I'm not even sure what it is. I >was curious to know how others have the timing set on their >vans......people >speaking of better gas mileage, more power (something I didn't think a >vanagon had), and better all round performance. I guess my question should >have been..........where should I have my mechanic set the timing in my >1.9l >at??? I know he set it a few months back but I'm sure he isn't aware of any >methods on how to tweek the engine to make it work better. >thanks for you help, >Chad 85GL > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com |
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