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That's exactly how I do it! I've never owned a timing light! Never could see the point!
I normally set the timing statically and then advance it 'till it pings and back it off a bit!
It was more the cam timing that was confusing me with the markers all out of whack. When I got it the intrmediate shaft was out of phase too which wasn't making things any clearer.
It's all good now though.
Pete
Know the feeling dude, we had a buggie in at the workshop all messed up like that. cam timing was out too.
Yeah that's how i used to do it with the Mk1. Pain when the points close up, then you reset them and it starts detonating its head off..
That fan shroud is pretty neat Pete. VW Just used a bit of mecanno to stretch out to the boltholes. Yours will probably cool more.
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It makes noises! Well at least it did until it made the really loud noise!
I took a while to get the injectors bled and then it fired up no worries.
I'd given it a few 5 minute runs while I checked for leaks and twiddled with the dizzy.
As I was rotating the dizzy I heard an almighty crack and saw a big flash and promptly removed myelf from the general area. I thought I'd stuffed the dizzy at first. There was a strong smell of electrical burning.
Upon investigation I have blown apart the temperature sender!
I must have got some wiring crossed up somehow and the thing has had a meltdown, it blew the guts right out of the sender! So much for fuses!
Hopefully it hasn't taken out the voltage reg in the dash.
Any body got a spare 2 pin sender?
Time for lunch and a bit of a think about the situation now.
I'm not sure why the temp sender blew. I didn't think they were polarity sensitive, but That's all I can think of at the moment.
There's an un used MK 2 temp sender on the underside of the water inlet to the head. Can anybody confirm that this actually a temp sender and how it's wired? If I can hook this up instead of the MK1 sender on the head outlet it might save me some grief trying to find a new one.
For some reason the fan wasn't kicking in. Turns out there was no fuse in the fuseholder I don't remember removing it! I put new connectors on the wiring at the fan switch and replaced the fuse and it's all good now.
I took the car for a spin around the block, still needs tuning. You can feel the cam start to work at about 3.5K. I think I need to advance the timing a heap more.
I feels a bit warm in the engine bay but it hasn't been going at any speed yet so that's expected. It needs a good run now to boil off the last of the coolant that found it's way into the motor when the head gasket went south.
I might wait until next weekend to tune it on the road, it's still in race trim and the local police seem to have a blitz on this long weekend. Once it's back in Grandma's shopping trolley garb I'll attract less attention.
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