Cringe!

[jimfoo]

Just reading on a Land Rover forum about someone telling another how to adjust their timing. It makes me cringe to know they never really know what it's timed at. Glad the VW's are a little more precise.:lol:
"Mine was smoking a little, slackened the three bolts out, then used a big wrench to turn it anti-clockwise a bit. Bit of trial and error but it was hard to turn due to the pipes holding it in place.
One of the bolt has timing marks next to it, so you know how much you have turned it and you can turn it back.

I've never known anyone be able to adjust it by any other method than trial and error."  :roll:

[burn_your_money]

yikes, that's not good at all. Especially because there are 4 bolts

[Vincent Waldon]

Someone the other day was telling me about the supposedly well-accepted method of tuning a Mercedes diesel pump using a big crowbar... something about bending the brackets to get more performance.

Dunno that I like the sounds of that.... !!!

Having said that, I have seen with my own eyes sections in the official Harley Davidson shop manual where you are instructed to hit things with a sledge hammer as part of an alignment procedure, so ya never know.

[saurkraut]

I believe the Harley hammer adjustments were to the crank bob weights, and I think the alignment tolerances were in 1/16 of an inch.

Measure it with a ruler, mark it with chalk, smack it with a mallet, and never force it, just get a bigger hammar.

[blkboostedtruck]

Having said that, I have seen with my own eyes sections in the official Harley Davidson shop manual where you are instructed to hit things with a sledge hammer as part of an alignment procedure, so ya never know.

so thats why my harley has a wobble in the front end! I need to hit the wobble out?  :shock:  makes sence :roll: ?
L.O.L.
Duane

[jtanguay]

truly a caveman bike  :lol:

[subsonic]

If that makes you cringe, on high end custom english shotguns, like $60,000 grand high end, the craftsmen sometimes have to wack the receivers with a heavy mallet in order to make them true after they are hardened.

All engraved and inlaid with gold, yep, wack it with the mallet.  Careful, a bit to hard and........ :shock:

[blkboostedtruck]

truly a caveman bike  :lol:

yep i feel like a neandrothaul riding it too! L.O.L.
Duane

[Dr. Diesel]

mercedes pumps (early ones, anyway) are one step up the evolutionary ladder. You remove #1 injection line, and replace it with a special, 2" long inverted 'J' shaped pipe with an angle-cut end. Turn the engine toward TDC compression #1 and when the first drop of fuel comes out the 'J', check the timing marks on the flywheel (or balancer, don't remember now) and voila, you have your timing.

[AdAm84]

Yeah i know this old guy who used to be a fuel tech. He told me that my timing was right on my rabbit, when it sounded like it was firing on 2 or 3 cylinders when its really cold out and with the cold start pulled out. lol. Seems to be right too. lol