I just put one of those chrome pulleys with the degrees marked all the way around on my '71 Bus when I did a long block swap. I used a timing light to adjust my supposedly stock distributor (with vaccum advance and retard) on cylinder number one. Just for kicks, I put the strobe on each of the other three splark plug leads. Much to my surprise, plugs 2, 3, and 4 were actually firing about with about 5 degrees of retard compared to number one. In other words, if #1 was set to 0 degrees TDC, the others were firing at 5 degrees ATDC. Is this normal and just something I've never noticed with the stock pully? Could it be due to the fact that this is a new long block and that I've screwed up the distributor insertion? Could there be something wrong with the distributor or with the cap? Could this be a reason why my new engine is running hot? Thanks for any insight.
Nick
|
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.