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• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:14:37 -0800
  ...0 - 2 @ 1050 RPM w/o vacuum and basic timing > 2 - 6 @1300 RPM w/o vacuum and basic timing > 12 - 16 @2400 RPM...
• Re: Digifant timing/tuning help needed
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 27 May 2010 22:14:47 -0400
  ...Digifant timing/tuning help needed Hi Volks, My 1.9L digifant engine has been sluggish ever since I put it into the bus back...
• Re: Timing Mark
  Historical mailing list - David Johnson
  Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:43:35 -0600
  ...So I kinda do need the timing mark before I use the timing light. but, I now have a new problem to boot : I...
• RE: '82 Diesel FS
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 08 Feb 1996 15:54:00 -0800 (PST)
  On 8 Feb 1996, Bob Hufford wrote: >'82 Euro Van, 7 pass., clean, diesel - with broken timing belt - $850 as >is. Wikieup, AZ, Fred...
• Re: Watercooled Mexican Microbusses (long)
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:25:55 -0800
  ...Gasoline timing marks? I thought you were putting a TD into your loaf? In any case if all you need is a TDC mark...
• Re: 2.1 water pump r+r
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:18:36 -0700
  If you remove the distributor the easy way, you can't mess up the timing and don't need to later adjust it. Just...
• Re: WHAT JUST HAPPENED???
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:51:59 -0500
  ...My theory was the timing advance mechanism in the distributor was getting slammed into a fully advanced position when the engine was stalled. WOT...
• Re: DEAR GOD Re: timing belt
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 04:21:12 +0000
  ...Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:26:15 -0400 > >"No Belt...timing chain instead" > >Dear GOd. Please help this list. It has become full of...
• no spark (after timing/dwell checked?)
  Historical mailing list - chris
  Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:25:51 -0700
  ...Got back, checked the dwell/timing. When I checked the timing, I connected the POS for my timing light to the POS side of...
• Re: '84 Westy: Does Air Conditioner Boost Idle?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:01:38 -0400
  ...It does react pretty fast; if you put a timing light on it you can see the timing jumping around rapidly. Yours, David
• Re: 1.9ltr vanagon timing help needed.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:43:56 -0400
  ...On the 1.9l the idle stab system works by advancing and retarding the timing to keep the idle at constant speed. Since it...
• RE: East Coast Gathering
  Historical mailing list - Skip Correll
  Sun, 15 Jan 1995 15:24:00 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Our 8th grade is going to an environmental camp on in South Carolina from 12 through 17 Feb so the timing is bad for...
• Timing Billy Bones - Need Help.
  Historical mailing list - Warren.K.Lail-1
  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:25:40 -0600
  ...I have a Craftsman Advance Timing LIght. Billy is a Digifant. After all I've been through, am I going to have to give...
• Re: Timing Chains, Belts, Gears, etc
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:36 -0700
  ...I've personally had two timing belts break before their 'time' (one in a Rabbit diesel- that one destroyed the head) and more recently...
• Re: diesel Vanagon vs. MB, Volvo, other diesel VW
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:55:55 -0800
  Yes, my 2001 Passat owner's manual says to replace the timing belt at 105K miles. David --- Karl Mullendore <groups@WESTYVENTURES.COM> wrote: > VW...
• Timing 2.1l WBX
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:55:31 -0500
  Trying to understand the proper ignition timing for my 2.1l WBX (Digifant). Based on my read of the Bentley, it should be 5...
• Re: Timing...
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:26:48 EST
  Mucho better-o. BenT San Francisco
• Re: CIS Puzzler (Jetta content only)
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Thu, 25 Nov 1999 04:26:53 -0500
  ...For whatever reason, it sounds like the timing marks no longer work with your new gear. Set the timing by ear/seat of your...
• Re: 82 Diesel won't start
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:37:44 -0700
  ...Given the description of your problem, I suspect injector pump timing. I believe that the timing belt stretches as it wears and causes the...
• Timing Help
  Historical mailing list - BILL
  Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:23:48 -0700
  Help, Where is the "best" location to put the power lead when timing the motor? Using a Sunpro model CP 7504 timing light on...
• <AIRS> 81 Vanagon Help
  Historical mailing list - Shawn
  Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:12:16 -0600
  ...I've got them trying to adjust the timing (without a timing lite). Fuel Filters o.k. I don't know much about the...
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  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 26 May 2017 11:09:23 -0700
  Has anyone else possibly adjusted other engine components to compensate (unknowingly) for the incorrect engine timing? I know you want to set timing at...
• Re: Timing Issues
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:17:15 -0800
  ...And it won't stay running long enough > under those conditions to get the timing adjusted. Can't get any rpm out > of it...
• Re: I'm Back! Timing belt question.
  Historical mailing list - KENWILFY
  Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:36:15 EST
  ...I wonder how many of you don't know what I am talking about and wonder when you should replace your timing belt? Right...
• Re: Timing Chains, Belts, Gears, etc
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:53:44 +1200
  ...No body wants to try to pull over and park on a cloud when a > timing chain fails. The only engines I know of...
• Digijet Timing Marks
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 1 May 2001 08:11:40 -0400
  ...I set the timing at 5BTDC and adjusted the idle. (I was running at about 2 or 3 BTDC). I must say, it runs...
• timing mark on a 1.9 wbx DH block
  Historical mailing list - George Thorburn
  Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:03:19 -0600
  Hey list, I am checking the timing on my van and have some questions. With the stabilizer disconnected and the leads hooked together the...
• Re: Diesel Vanagon Timing Advice
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:37:14 -0600
  ...Open the plastic plug over the timing inspection hole in the tranny bell housing (if the plug is not already missing). 2. With the...
• Re: Timing tips for Idiots
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:50:26 -0700
  ...Mounted with the screen should be a timing scale in either metal (original) or black plastic (replacement). In the case of an engine fire...
• Re: Timing the 2.1L Vanagon Engine
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:04:56 -0600
  ...Was retarded almost at 0. > >We reset the timing to 6 Degrees BTDC (spec is 5 +/- 2 degrees) > >Everything else looked good. Even under...
• Re: Timing Help
  Historical mailing list - Constance Connelly
  Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:31:16 -0500
  ...Timing Help >Help, >Where is the "best" location to put the power lead when timing the motor? >Using a Sunpro model CP 7504 timing...
• Re: User friendly fuels (was you fixed it..)
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:19:15 -0500
  On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Donald Baxter / Iowa City, Iowa wrote: > One of the things that concerns me is fragility of the rubber timing...
• WHAT IS THE iGNITION TIMING PROCEDURE FOR 84 WATERBOXER (DIGIJET).
  Historical mailing list - Chuck
  Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:15:00 -0400
  ...My timing tools are a strobe with advance dial and a dwell meter. Greg Clever. [text/html]
• !982 Diesel
  Historical mailing list - Frederick M. Wasserstein
  Mon, 25 Dec 2000 04:22:47 -0600
  ...ofr just motors? Is there an easy way to change the timing belt. Mine has been parked by the PO for about 5 years...
• Re: Definitive test for Hall > ECU?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:23:39 -0700
  ...In > Smog Check II test areas using the dyno, the idle timing is monitored, > but the timing during high rpm/load test test is...
• '80 aircooled power loss cont
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Foust
  Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:36:19 -0500
  ...I misspoke and said timing retards when I rev motor - I meant it advanced (timing moves counter clockwise on scale). Distributor is single vac...
• Re: timing belt?
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:45:14 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Does the EV have a timing belt? All the Vanagons have engines that are essentially the same as the old bug engine and will...
• what is the ignition timing procedure for 83 1/2 waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Chuck
  Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:03:27 -0400
  ...My timing tools are a strobe with advance dial and a dwell meter. Greg Clever. [text/html]
• Re: Timing '91 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Sat, 2 Mar 2002 21:07:04 -0800
  > Know I'm missing something obvious here, but.... > I'm trying to use a timing light on my Westy and get no "flash" when...
• Re: GOWESTY AFM no start problem
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:19:31 -0600
  DJ @ What Altitude do You Live & Drive Mostly ~ It makes a Diff' in where Your Eng's Timing Needs to be ~ ORR ~ DeanB On...
• Question about Honda Timing belt (No Vanagon Content)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 31 May 2001 10:03:13 EDT
  ...We were trying to replace the timing belt on my friend's '86 Honda Accord Automatic with EFI the other day and were running...
• Re: Advancing timing for more power, was: Boston Bob's web site
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Thu, 2 May 2002 20:04:15 EDT
  ...Probably this is what should be checked with a timing light. I admit I havent done it though. Idle timing can be where it...
• Re: 2.1 Ignition Timing, Advance beyond stock?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:00:19 -0400
  ...2.1 Ignition Timing, Advance beyond stock? Has anyone tried advancing their timing beyond the stock setting? Did you get more power? I do...
• 78 Timing Marks?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 4 Jun 1996 21:29:34 -0700
  I have a question concerning the timing marks on my 78 Engine. There are two different marks, or grooves on the pulley, one on...
• TDI no vanagon content.
  Historical mailing list - Barry Mercer
  Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:28:02 -0500
  ...My dealer says it needs to have the timing belt serviced and has warned that this will cost in the $500 CDN dollar range...
• Where's Cylinder # 1?
  Historical mailing list - Wognacious
  Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:12:21 -0800
  OK, I now know how to hookup the timing light for 12V but I'm not sure which cylinder is #1 for hooking the...
• Re: no power in the low end
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Mon, 2 May 2005 11:39:21 -0400
  check your timing
• Re: stumped
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:26:44 -0800
  ...The timing light shows I'm getting spark; I tried it on all four plug > wires. > 3. Right now, the timing is at TDC...
• Re: Digijet Timing Marks
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 1 May 2001 10:38:46 -0400
  ...Digijet Timing Marks Ok, I went through this exact same thing. First it drove me nuts that setting the timing to the specifications causes...
• Re: DEAR GOD Re: timing belt
  Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:46:57 -0400
  ...You or any one talking about timing belt changes, > arguing with someone that it is a timing chain in vanagon engine. > If you insist...
• Re: TDI no vanagon content.
  Historical mailing list - Amy and Andrew
  Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:58:04 -0500
  ...The timing does need regular service, but I would check with the manual first and follow it. I believe our manual says 60k miles...
• Re: Advancing timing for more power, was: Boston Bob's web site
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 3 May 2002 08:34:28 -0400
  ...Probably this is what should be checked with a timing light. I admit I havent done it though. Idle timing can be where it...
• Re: Advanced Timing OK?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:36:15 -0400
  ...I have found you can safely advance the timing to the same setting as the 2.1l Vanagons with no ill effects. In fact...
• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:32:49 -0800
  ...0 - 2 @ 1050 RPM w/o vacuum and basic timing 2 - 6 @1300 RPM w/o vacuum and basic timing 12 - 16 @2400 RPM...
• Re: Timing light power source - confirmation
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:47:03 -0800
  ...Pokeswagen >makes me feel like a dumbass. > >So my good old timing light that worked beautifully on my Ford seems to >have the distinct...
• Re: Converting EFI to Carberator
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:19:07 -0500
  ...Timing Billy > Bones - Need Help. > > > Have you tried static timing as per John > Muir??? if > > you waNt the pages I have them scanned (JPG...
• Minutiae: Timing
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Nov 95 17:57 CST
  ...Another gem from the archives of the VW Autoist, September, 1967 for those out there who may be *very* picky about their timing. Under...
• Timing anyone?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
  Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:54:32 EDT
  ...I was trying to set the timing today because it has begun to stall when cold and when the A/C is on. I...
• Re: Friday: One Bolt Led To Another.....
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:23:37 -0700
  ...How far out was timing as shown at cam OT mark? 1 tooth or ? Motronic engine management can adjust timing to some degree but...
• Re: timing belt
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:41:13 -0500
  Most people who know only the folklore of "modern" engines know that an expensive timing belt replacement looms in their future somewhere. People own...