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RE: Help needed...

To: nick.pitt@bbc.co.uk (Nick Pitt), ps@ecst.csuchico.edu (Paul M. Schwerdt)
Subject: RE: Help needed...
From: Ross Overcash <jroverca@tiac.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 10:19:39 -0500 (EST)
At 01:01 PM 1/18/97 GMT, Nick Pitt wrote:
>
>Paul
>     The easiest way to turn the engine over it is,
>1)   Remove (or at least loosen) the spark plugs.
>2)   Put the car in gear, lower gears make it easier.
>3)   Jack one rear wheel just clear of the ground.
>4)   Now you can turn the engine over by turning this wheel (turning it as 
>if the car is going forward will show you the direction of rotation of the 
>engine).
>     The disadvantage of this method is that you might need a helper to tell 
>you when the timing light goes on and off. The timing marks are a notch on 
>the outside edge of the lower pulley on the front of the engine, and the set 
>of teeth that stick out from the front engine plate just next to this 
>pulley.
>     Good luck.
>
>          Nick (73 B Roadster)
>          
>     ps. If this doesn't work then kick it!
>     
> ----------
>From: Paul M. Schwerdt
>To: mgs
>Subject: Help needed...
>Date: 17 January 1997 01:06
>
>
>I recently posted a note on here about rebuilding my distributor.
>Everyone was very helpful, and I thought my car was finally fixed.  But it
>still doesn't run.  I am pretty sure it is because the timing is really
>messed up.  (I took the clamp off, when I removed the distributor)  The
>reason why I think it is the timing is for the following reasons, the
>battery is new, and fully charged, I just replaced the coil, plugs, leads,
>cap, rotor, condenser, and points.  The car will turn over when the
>ignition is turned, but it never fires.  (I think this is the right
>description...)
>
>Is there anything that I am missing?  Or is the timing so messed up that
>the car won't fire?
>
>Plus, I went to try timing it today, and I was at a loss when trying to
>find the timing marks.  Plus, I don't know how to turn the crankshaft in
>order to align the missing marks.
>
>Please help, I am a beginner, so I might be missing something totally
>obvious.
>
>thanks...
>
> -= PAUL =-
>
>
>
>Nick,

This is why I love this list.  A tech tip as simple as this one, yet I would
bet a bunch of us have never thought of it!  I know I hadn't, and I have
struggled with lining up tim ming marks for years.

Ross Overcash, 74B, NAMGBR 2-1172, Ayer, MA.


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