Hi Chad,

I don't think your mechanic would agree to setting it at 6 degrees before
TDC anyway, because he would be held liable for possible damages.

He may agree to set it a couple degrees ahead of stock?

A vanagon would be a good canidate to learn mechanics on. But the aircooled
VW's that I learned on are cheaper and didn't have water cooling to mess
with when I had to pull the engines to fix my screw-ups.

Happy Travels,
Mark Ingalls

>From: "Chad" <groch@worldchat.com>
>To: "Mark Ingalls" <ingalls_mark@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Engine Timing
>Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:18:55 -0400
>
>I guess I went over my own head with the original question I asked.  I
>don't
>know anything about timing. To be honest I'm not even sure what it is.  I
>was curious to know how others have the timing set on their
>vans......people
>speaking of better gas mileage, more power (something I didn't think a
>vanagon had), and better all round performance.  I guess my question should
>have been..........where should I have my mechanic set the timing in my
>1.9l
>at??? I know he set it a few months back but I'm sure he isn't aware of any
>methods on how to tweek the engine to make it work better.
>thanks for you help,
>Chad 85GL
>

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