[Spridgets] Bugeye/Frogeye Club..... Timing marks don't align

[Jon Paschke]

Thanks everyone, got it. We took the dristrubitor drive out and 
realigned it and put everything back together and now the mark alines 
and we have the timing set. It must be windows related, a reboot and all 
is well.
Just a Spridget owner miss step...;)
As a side note on this 1275 we rebuilt, we had it built two weeks ago 
and started it only to have it cease up after about 15 seconds. Tore it 
back down only to find the wrist pins had frozen in the pistons 2, 3, 
and 4.
We had a machine shop install the pistons on the rods and they supplied 
new pistons when they did it so they redid them and gave us a new set of 
pistons as they had to destroy the frozen on ones.
They said the factory clearance must have been to close on the bad set.
Thanks for all the ideas and responses.
Jon
58 Bugeye

On 8/26/2016 2:06 PM, Gerard pixelsmith at gerardsgarage.com [bugeye] wrote:
>
> Jon,
>
> Either the mark you are looking at is not the original one or the 
> rubber isolation ring has deteriorated enough to let the inner and out 
> portion slip out of alignment. The original timing mark on a 1275 is a 
> small square notch at the back end (nearest the timing cover) of the 
> pulley. If I remember correctly, the timing mark should be directly in 
> line, and opposite the keyway.
>
> Gerard
>
> > On Aug 26, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Jon Paschke JPASCHKE at bak.rr.com 
> [bugeye] <bugeye at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > I've just rebuilt my 1275 and it started right up and we broke in the
> > cam with no problems. After shutting it down and it cooled off we put
> > the timing light on it and the marks are at least 2 inches apart and
> > when I try moving the distributor to get them close the motor will not
> > run. What did I do? it seems like it's about a quarter of the bottom
> > pulley off. I have the distributor aligned according to the book and 
> the
> > rotor points right at number one at TDC. I have a pertronics in it and
> > it ran fine and timed right before the rebuild. Could the cam be off?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jon
> >
> >
> >
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