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1. [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net>; Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:42:25 -0600; Had set the dizzy to open with the marks at TDC, not happening. So I advanced it a whole bunch till the car would start. Put a light on it and, by the marks, it looks like 40ТА retarded at a nice smo; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00124.html (9,207 bytes)
2. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <TR3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:40:17 -0800; Sounds to me like your TDC marks are wrong. If the issue is the front pulley being assembled wrong, it would be off by 60 degrees, and so you're still about 20 degrees fast. That is likely to be an i; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00126.html (9,897 bytes)
3. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:38:45 -0600; Thanks Randall, 40ТА was just a guess, the mark is about at the 2:00 position. I am using the hole in the pulley as the TDC mark, there is also a file mark there. I turned the dizzy clockwise until i; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00127.html (10,730 bytes)
4. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: David P <frogeye@porterscustom.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:15:56 -0700; "what should I be looking for?" Someone to properly set the timing for you...... -- Porter Custom Bicycles 2909 Arno St. NE Albuquerque, NM. 505-352-1378 My World go here: WWW.PORTERBIKES.COM/ -- Thi; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00128.html (12,286 bytes)
5. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: <jpaynepbr@cox.net> reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 a=nY13lOlxTLGfBu+QBWFAkQ==:117 a=nY13lOlxTLGfBu+QBWFAkQ==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=zOoktvdPAAAA:8 a=bV0iEj13AAAA:8 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:30:58 -0800; It's more likely that the distributor drive gear is off by a tooth or two than the pulley being put on wrong. There is only 1 way to get the pulley on and no opportunity to mess it up. The drive gear; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00129.html (13,289 bytes)
6. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Andrew Uprichard" <auprichard@uprichard.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:31:03 -0500; I think Randall's point was, you could have installed the pulley wrong: the hole should be opposite the slot for the woodruff key. Could you have gotten the distributor drive one tooth out where it e; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00130.html (12,859 bytes)
7. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <TR3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:20:24 -0800; As long as it doesn't ping or overheat, it should be OK. ** triumphs@autox.team.net ** Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs http://www.team.net/archive; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00131.html (10,336 bytes)
8. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:35:33 -0600; Thanks to all who responded with good thoughts. Because this motor was in such good shape when I got it I did not pull it apart. I like the idea that it is the distributor drive, will move it a tooth; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00132.html (10,658 bytes)
9. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: TERRY SMITH <terryrs@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:05:44 -0500 (EST); lessee if i remember right. the pully mounts to a flange via 6 bolts. the flange itself is keyed and mounts to the crankshaft, meaning you can only mount the flange one way using the key, but can bug; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00133.html (14,836 bytes)
10. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Kinderlehrer" <kinderlehrer@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:07:06 -0800; I was having similar issues and then discovered that when the hole in the pulley was at the pointer, cylinder 2 was at top dead center. So now if I'm using a timing light, I hook it up to cylinder 2.; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00134.html (14,466 bytes)
11. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Jerry Van Vlack" <jerryvv@roadrunner.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:01:16 -0500; While the pulley hub can only go on 1 way I seem to recall the 2 halves of the sheet metal pulley can be assembled to the hub several ways thus the hole is in the incorrect position and timing is the; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00135.html (14,287 bytes)
12. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: Paul Tegler <ptegler@verizon.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:07:47 -0500; considering the wear issues for these old cars...the best procedure I've learned to trust (and has worked on a variety of cars...) taught to me by an ol' timer... while re-adjusting the idle to the p; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00136.html (11,871 bytes)
13. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <TR3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:06:28 -0800; On a TR3, the front pulley assembly consists of 4 pieces held together by 6 bolts. The hub is keyed to the crankshaft; but the timing mark is on a piece that can be installed on the hub in any of 6 p; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00137.html (11,523 bytes)
14. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: Stan Foster <stan@redtr6.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:20:28 +0000; British cars pink, American cars ping. As long as it doesn't ping or overheat, it should be OK. ** triumphs@autox.team.net ** Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs http://www.team.net/archi; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00138.html (11,277 bytes)
15. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <TR3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:20:09 -0800; The problem with that approach IMO is that a TR3 is designed to idle with the timing rather retarded from normal. That is why the factory timing spec is only 4 BTDC rather than the more common 10-14; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00139.html (11,792 bytes)
16. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: Rye Livingston <ryel@mac.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:36:38 GMT MailServer1821B37.10000-1821B-0-3ae025191697 definitions=2019-02-28_14:, , signatures=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 mlxscore=0 mlxl; --==4365663116877858075== --Apple-Webmail-42--83dda2a4-8db5-4fc6-b043-d07d1031b5e3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable charset=utf-8; format=flowed Unless I'm missing something in this proble; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00140.html (15,656 bytes)
17. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:43:26 -0600; Thanks Bob, Iт??ll check the mark against other cylinders, never thought if that. I timed like you did, just listening till it felt right and no ping. Bill Sent from my DynaTAC 8000X I was having sim; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00141.html (14,020 bytes)
18. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Alex & Janet Thomson" <aljlthomson@charter.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:55:37 -0500; I'm a little puzzled here. If the distributor was installed several teeth off, isn't the only thing that will do is change the position of the distributor body, and hence, the secondary towers of the; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00142.html (15,000 bytes)
19. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:00:50 -0600; Randall, To get the timing marks to align, the distributor had to be turned about 1/8th turn clockwise. That is where I static timed it before attempting to start it. Then I put it back to a more nor; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00143.html (11,481 bytes)
20. Re: [TR] TR3 Timing question (score: 1): Author: "Andrew Uprichard" <auprichard@uprichard.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:15:38 -0500; The mark is on the front pulley and if the distributor is a tooth off, the car will look like it is excessively advanced or retarded. And for the person who said it is not possible to mess up the pul; /html/triumphs/2019-02/msg00144.html (14,850 bytes)

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