Today I looked at the timing, and I am confused.
I followed the procedure in the green book:
- align IP mark with belt and the fly wheel to zero.
- insert tool and put about 2mm of preload on it.
- Rotate engine backward until minimum value on tool dial.
- Zero tool.
- Rotate engine forward to zero mark on fly wheel.
- tool should now be reading about .80mm certainly between .70 mm to 1.00 mm.
At this point my reading is .23 mm and I haven't unbolted the pump yet:
I went through the process several times, spun the engine forward one revolution in between.
Then I tried loosening the pump to see if I could rotate it to a value of .80 mm or anywhere in the correct range. I could only increase the tool's value by .21 mm, which left me at .44 mm. This doesn't seem right.
The only way I can get into the range of .7-1.0 is rotate the pump clockwise (from the tool port side). This also doesn't make sense to me since the book says the opposite.
Any thoughts on what I am doing incorrectly?
Cheers.