On Wed, 21 Jun 1995, Greg Meboe wrote:
> Ray,
> If you say the engine is an 18GH, then I would respond that the
> reason you can't find the timing mark on the crank pulley is because the
> timing mark is on the bottom of the pulley. Get under the car and look
> up and you will see the timing marks, both on the engine side and on the
> crankshaft pulley. Commonly people think that their crank pulley and
Despite being only 25 years old and not knowing a blessed thing about cars
or the meaning of life, Greg was right about the location of the fixed
timing mark on an MGB 18GH engine.
I had driven it to work, so I looked. There the little thing is, hanging
like a mechanical uvula behind the crank pulley, dead center on the bottom
(it looked a lot like a multifaceted oil drop). What a wonderful place
for it; you need pretty long arms to adjust the timing. Now, either the
car is running with the timing 60 -120 degrees advanced or retarded, which
seems fairly improbable, or mayhap there's a rubber layer in the pulley
that has slipped. Just because I am curious, I'll check the static timing
as soon as I have time, and see what I get.
I better not buy this car; I will suggest Tim sell it to Click and Clack
as a rolling puzzler.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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