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Re: <long> Update: TR4 dwell setting and timing question

To: <randallyoung@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: <long> Update: TR4 dwell setting and timing question
From: ZoboHerald@aol.com
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 11:26:09 EDT
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Could it also be that someone was careless in replacing a removed distributor 
and simply installed it "out of phase" and then moved wires around rather than 
set it properly?

--Andy Mace

In a message dated Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:06:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Randall 
<randallyoung@earthlink.net> writes:

> Dylan :
> 
> That's not inside the engine.  Either the crank key for the hub is
> missing or (more likely) the fan pulley is assembled to the hub wrong. 
> Should be easy to fix, with no more than R&R the fan and hub (unless of
> course the key is missing because the keyway in the crank is ruined).
> 
> BTW, congratulations on being self-taught.  That's the way I learned. 
> Started my first engine rebuild before I even had my license!
> 
> Randall
> 
> Dylan Pedersen wrote:
> > 
> > Turns out someone has been inside the engine and re-set the
> > timing mark the timing mark (hole in crank) is perfectly lined up, when # 3
> > is supposed to fire.

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