Hello Everyone.
I Just subscribed to this mailing list. I am having some bad problems with my
TR6
(1975).
The tachometer was not working, so I took off the distributor, and looked at
the gear, it was worn, so I got a new one. Put the distributor back on, and
the Timing
is WWWAAAYYY off. The engine can barely Idle, so. I have the Haynes Repair
Manual,
it tells me to re set the ignition timing, so I do that, Perfectly, to 10
degrees BTDC.
Start up the engine, and it is still Horrible, cannot rev what so ever. I was
thinking for
a mement, then realized the book said something about setting the timing 180
degrees
off. I though about this, because it mentions that pistons 1, and 6 are both
TDC at the
same time, and that you could put the distributor in wrong, ***BUT** the
distributor only
goes in ONE WAY!. Therefore, you cannot set the timing 180 degrees out, because
the
distributor goes around ONCE, for every 2 revolutions of the crankshaft. so, If
you have
the crankshaft at the wrong rev. then the rotor arm will be pointing at 6, and
obviously you
wont time it to 6, so you spin it around. But there is NO WAY you can set it to
fire cylinder
1, when it should be firing 6 and vice versa. anyways, the Timing is set
perfectly, and the
engine is suffering, it also runs better when the number one spark plug is
disconnected.
It is very strange, because it was working fine before I took off the
distributor. I may be wrong
about this whole 180 degrees out stuff. I really need someone else to think
about this with me.
If perhaps I did not explain myself well, Just let me know.
Thanks,
Graham McMicken (g.mcmicken@shaw.ca)
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