Date:         Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:54:31 -0600
Reply-To:     David Johnson <davidj@ELPASOTEL.NET>
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From:         David Johnson <davidj@ELPASOTEL.NET>
Subject:      Timing Mark
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Ok, so I am slowly putting my '80 Westy back together after an engine
fire.  I followed the Haynes guide for this since it was a little
more detailed than the Bentley, and after putting on a new timing
scale, I tried to look for a farking timing mark on the pulley.  I
took the dang housing cover completely off, and finally after looking
and feeling around the pulley, I found this little tiny sort of
dimple on the inner rim of the pulley that looks like someone had
scraped clean at one point.  Since I know a repair job shortly before
the fire resulted in the engine being retimed, I assumed this was the
mark, set it to TDC, took note of where the rotor was, roughly where
the vacuum advance was, and successfully swapped in the new distributor.

Now, having said all that, I am pondering if that was really the
timing mark, and if I did something else.  Of course, once the fuel
ring is rebuilt and the wiring harness put back on, I suppose I will
be able to tell more readily, huh?  But if anyone with wisdom on an
aircooled could offer any critiques, ideas, or things I missed, I
would be glad.  I can at least guarantee that the rotor is on the
correct side of the distributor relative to where it was, and the
thing is in place about where it was before.  So as long as nothing
else is utterly FUBAR the engine should at some point start and keep
running long enough to properly time it, right?

Thanks,

David
'80 Westy (Blue Midget) slowly coming back from the brink.