Timing Marks on Stock Pulley

[Joey]

[Randyfukeway]

[Cusser]

[Joey]

[Desertbusman]

[Randyfukeway]

[Desertbusman]

The firing order is 1432 or 4321, or 3214, or 2143. They are all the same order.

What you are talking about is where the wires are plugged into the cap.

The firing order has nothing to do with the position of the wires in the cap only that the firing order goes around CW. And that when #1 cylinder is at TDC at the top of the compression stroke that the #1 plug wire is plugged into the cap directly above where the rotor is positioned.
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71 Westy

[ashman40]

[Randyfukeway]

[ashman40]

One more point before I get off the soap box .....

To properly set up the ignition....

Rotate the engine until the crank + cam + valves are in the proper position for the #1 cylinder to ignite the compressed air-fuel charge. This is about 180-crank deg after the intake valve closes. This is #1 TDC at the end of the compression stroke.

Remove the distributor.

Look down in the distributor hole and the drive gear should look like this.




Orient the drive cog so it fits the drive gear down in the case hole. It only fits one way. Check that the rotor cannot be rotated more than 10-15deg (and if it does it should spring back). If it rotates more and doesn't spring back then the cog is not properly engaging the drive gear. Press the distributor in deeper.

Once you get the distributor seated, your engine is still oriented ready to fire cylinder #1. This means the rotor will be pointing where the #1 plug wire must be installed. The spark needs to travel from the coil thru the rotor to the #1 plug wire and then to the #1 plug. If the spark ends up in any other cylinder then your timing is incorrect.

Rotate the distributor body so the small notch in the rim of the distributor it near the tip of the rotor. This mark now indicates where #1 spark plug wire should be.

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[Randyfukeway]

[ashman40]

[Randyfukeway]

[Desertbusman]

Regardless, check timing for consistancy on all 4 cylinders. Worn lobes can throw it off.
There is nothing magic about #1
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[xsteveg]

i have the two notch pully and its not running rite:
the 2 notches are on the crank case side of the pully, no dimple.

i adjusted timing while it was running for highest rpm at idle. seem to run strong and missfire occasionally the miss fire cud have been back fire, that setting was approx 10 degrees BEFORE the rite most mark.

then i set it to the left most mark using a multimeter (static)

then i saw a youtube about how some engines need to be set AT tdc if its a certain kind of distributor so that would be to the left of the left most notch.

bottom line, runs strong most of the time and sputters occasionally to the point where there is no real power.

not even sure what engine i have i thought it a 1200cc but dont see my engine code on the list, its F0923572

anyone know what the timming should be? where TDC is? and any ideas what order i should take things? i have heard 10 degrees 7.5 degrees and 0, whats the best timing setting to make my engine last and purr

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xsteveq;

Good job finding the forum topic related to your problem, newbies have a tendancy to post instead of search.

You don't however get any points for reading it. The bottom of page 3 on this same thread you will find a complete rundown of all the factory pully markings. I belive the bottom picture is of your 2 notch pully.

I read a whole lot more than I post on these forums.

[wcfvw69]

[Randy in Maine]

It would also be nice to know if you own or can borrow a dwell meter.

[darbyjack]

My dimple lines up with the one on the far left. I'm a bit confused.

Also I adjusted valves yesterday to 006 with the dent in the middle of the three (nearer to engine), instead of the dimple (nearer to me). Will this make a huge difference? From what I understand, it won't, but timing the distributor is important to find TDC. I have a tacho dial in advance light gun,

This pulley is not original. It came with my car when it had a 1500 engine, now it has a 1600 DP. Who knows where it came from

EDIT: I timed it to what I believe is 7.5 BTDC. Seems to drive fine. Bloody thing runs hot though. Still able to JUST hold dipstick with my finger, but then again I'm usually able to touch hotter things than most people. Got hot air coming come out of heater channel, despite being rusted and the exchanger has about a 2cm gap from where it gets the air form the engine. Blah.
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1970 VW Beetle standard. 1600 DP engine

Right hand drive from UK of course!

[ashman40]