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What does crank mark line up with at TDC? 200

posted by  sasjzl on  Sun Feb 1 14:40 CST 2009
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I need some help brick guys and gals.
I might be over my head with this but I am learning alot and this is a car is a spare so I am not desperate to get it back on the road. I just want to learn more. It is a 1987 240 wagon standard shift.

I had a broken spring on a valve so not knowing that I could take care of it without removing the head, I removed the head. Everything was straight forward and I just got everything (I hope?) back together again. Turned it over hoping to hear something and there was nothing. The starter is working great turning the engine over and over and over. Not even a hint of combustion though. I have spark and fuel, at least fuel going to the injector rail. I cannot see anything that I have not reconnected.

I did not remove the crank pulley when I did the head. I just took the timing belt off at the cam wheel. My theory is that while the head was off and the timing belt loose, though still on the crank and intermediate wheel, I messed up the exact relationship between the cam, the intermediate (distributer) and the crank. I now have the crank pulley off and finally removed the lower chain cover so I can see everything.

My question centers on the orientation of the crankshaft. I have pictures here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~sasjzl/1987volvo240/
Pictures #3 and #4 show where the notch is in the pulley with white paint. The other pictures show the cam wheel and intermediate lined up pretty well with their marks. I cannot find a mark for the crankshaft. Is there such a thing?
Can you tell if the crank is off? Does the car not doing anything but crank with spark and fuel sound like one of these three things is off? I have all three manuals and I cannot really tell from any of them what the crank mark is supposed to line up with. I also do not see any mark to line the distributor rotor up and my manual tells me there should be one. Picture #1 shows the rotor position. I am thinking that it should point to the middle of the electronic plug. So a few degrees counter clockwise of where it is at. I find that intermediate wheel that the distributor is ocnnected to is very easy to move. The cam and the crank are not.

Thanks in advance to all for any help. You can email me on the website URL above.

Jim Lee






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