009 Timing, I'm Sorry.

[Wildthings]

You need to get your timing mark set according to Ratwell and then once the timing is right worry about the other stuff.

[NoBudgetVWGarage]

Ok. Got the engine running and starting a while whole lot better.
Timing is currently set at 28 degrees at full advance.
My carbs were not tunes up enough to get it going previously.
I filed on Mark to see it better.

I'm going to check the valves now then mess with the carbs once she warms up.
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1969 Transporter
1968 Ghia
1959 Ghia Hot VW Drag Car

[NoBudgetVWGarage]

Working on Toaster now. ( Bus in my sig)
Same deal. At idle the timing Mark is at 28... full advance and it's past 40.
If I time it down to where it's supposed to be it starts popping and backfiring through driver side carb and exhaust.
I have video of it. I'll try to post it.
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1969 Transporter
1968 Ghia
1959 Ghia Hot VW Drag Car

[nemobuscaptain]

[NoBudgetVWGarage]

Back at it. Trying to get ready for Prado/Blackstar Campout.
I changed my intake gaskets with new ones from CB Performance. Helped with the adjustment of the carbs and no more popping out of the exhaust.
While I had the engine out and apart I double checked my timing marks

The timing situation is still the same. Idle is around 28 degrees and at high rpm it goes off the scale past 40 degrees. I'll rev the RPM's up and try to lower the timing to a decent level and I get a bunch of popping through the carbs with flames and runs like crap. Beginning to think the distributor (009) may be at fault? Seems to run great where it is, but I need to know where my timing is to feel comfortable.
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1969 Transporter
1968 Ghia
1959 Ghia Hot VW Drag Car

[Randy in Maine]

I would march those spark plug wires around the cap one notch and see what happens.

I would find a better distributor (it would hard to find a worse one).

[busman78]

Verify you have a bus pulley and not a 914. Verify that the pulley is on correctly and the alignment dowel is not out of place.

Take the right valve cover off find true TDC via the #1 valves, mark the pulley with chalk at TDC then do it again to verify.

[Wildthings]

The mark is properly located as shown in this photo

The mark you are using isn't doesn't appear to be even close to what this photo shows.

[NoBudgetVWGarage]

That is how I verified my timing Mark while the engine was out. Pulley is original to my bus. Home sick today with food poisoning.. so maybe a little later today I'll go out and mess with it again.
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1969 Transporter
1968 Ghia
1959 Ghia Hot VW Drag Car

[nemobuscaptain]

[Westfalia73]

[Tcash]

NoBudgetVWGarage if you timing light has a little dial on it? Set it to (0).

[NoBudgetVWGarage]

No Dial on the timing light. I'm going to double check the timing marks on BOTH of the busses i'm working on.

I see in the one pic I took above I may be referenced wrong (Oarnge 72- 1.7L)

Mine I double checked the mark when the pulley was off last week. (Blue 72- 2.0L)
but will do it again to confirm.

The Blue 72 (profile pic) made the trek to BlackStar this past weekend with no issues. Just don't like not knowing where i'm at.
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1969 Transporter
1968 Ghia
1959 Ghia Hot VW Drag Car