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Apr 17, 2011 1:37 am
Apr 17, 2011 1:37 am
Subject: Re: Ignition timing
Dear Peter,
My Father Jim died four weeks ago, quite peacefully, just short of his 94th birthday. He had been battling with cancer for many years and it had just started to spread through his organs.
A week before his death he finished a radiotherapy course then drove home (180 km) from the clinic with my Mother. The day after he fell in his kitchen and suffered mild concussion, so I put him in our very good little local hospital. Two days later he had a mild stroke but came around OK, then 3 days after that a massive stroke which put him in a coma from which he did not emerge.
Up to the day of going off for radio he was still coming across to my farm to work on our cars with me. The very last conversation I had with him, just before the coma, regarded Laurence's V12 rear crank oil seal query which had been posted on this forum.
However, to your query. (I have emailed photos to you as I still haven't mastered attachments). In the bellhousing under the starter motor you should have a hole with a pointer screwed into it. Remove, and then reverse it. There are two holes in the flywheel, one 10deg before TDC and one 10 deg after, into which this pointer slides. Then follow the handbook instructions.
When adjusting your timing on the front gears be sure that you are rotating the motor clockwise to keep tension on the timing chain.
Regards,
Mark.
Dear Peter,
My Father Jim died four weeks ago, quite peacefully, just short of his 94th birthday. He had been battling with cancer for many years and it had just started to spread through his organs.
A week before his death he finished a radiotherapy course then drove home (180 km) from the clinic with my Mother. The day after he fell in his kitchen and suffered mild concussion, so I put him in our very good little local hospital. Two days later he had a mild stroke but came around OK, then 3 days after that a massive stroke which put him in a coma from which he did not emerge.
Up to the day of going off for radio he was still coming across to my farm to work on our cars with me. The very last conversation I had with him, just before the coma, regarded Laurence's V12 rear crank oil seal query which had been posted on this forum.
However, to your query. (I have emailed photos to you as I still haven't mastered attachments). In the bellhousing under the starter motor you should have a hole with a pointer screwed into it. Remove, and then reverse it. There are two holes in the flywheel, one 10deg before TDC and one 10 deg after, into which this pointer slides. Then follow the handbook instructions.
When adjusting your timing on the front gears be sure that you are rotating the motor clockwise to keep tension on the timing chain.
Regards,
Mark.