[tcb] Re: Well Duh!
- From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:45:59 -0500
I hate to admit it, but I have done the same. In my case I forgot that the
front of the engine is the tranny side, so I adjusted the valves completely
wrong and set the timing to #3. I will deny this from now on.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ronnie Hughes
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:16 PM
Subject: [tcb] Well Duh!
I called Mark S last night and we talked about Sparky the popper. He kept
coming back to the timing or distributor. This evening before he was planning
to come over, I got my VW for idiots book out and stared at the pictures of a
distributor cap for about 10 minutes. There it was, right in front of my eyes,
the distributor rotates clockwise, not counterclockwise. Turns our Sparky has
been trying to run on the number 1 & 3 cylinder for I don't know how long.
Once I changed the wires on the distributor around, it fired right up. The way
it was smoking makes me wonder if it has been firing only on #1 & #3 for a long
time or just since I got back from ES and decided to FIX it.
I called Mark and told him what I found and saved him a trip to The Woodlands.
Still not running great, but no more popping and now I think I can adjust the
carbs and get it to smooth out. I drove around the block a couple of times and
most of the smoking is gone.
Let's see, a 1914/2 is a 957.
Ronnie, poorer, but wiser Hughes
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