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Hi,
I was afraid of this happening or getting missed.
When I was trying to study your pictures things just didn’t set well with me.
I made a post with my concerns here.
https://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1659853/220/240/260/280/1985_244_run_yet.html
That plastic mark for timing the distributor is somewhat allusive. Darn hard to describe where it’s located on an leaning engine.
I could almost see the distributor pointing off in the wrong area by looking at the surroundings and I questioned at what phase you were in timing the engine in a picture.
Darned armchairs are just to far away at times!
Art is probably right about moving the distributor to get it to run and the timing is still not right.
When things are right, the bolt should be pretty much centered in its slot, so it cannot be shifted so far out of timing. Does the bolt tighten up back in its hole and still in the slot?
Being that the distributor was so hard to turn, means it had not been out in a long time. A harden O ring and aluminum in the cast iron block doesn’t help.
So sorry that the dot below is not aligned.
Again the little bump in the plastic is hard to see or even feel! Bright light and a mirror is needed when you get back down there when working from above.
In fact, I thought on that year car it was a detent but on my 1990 engine, on my engine stand it’s raised up, so, there may have been a change by Volvo.
A couple or even three teeth spins that distributor a bunch in relation to the width of the rotor contact tip. Thus, the starting fluid vapor only flamed in the cylinder, at best and didn’t get to explode.
Good news is that it will run like before, when you get it right.
If you leave the water pump leaking the windshield wipers won’t squeak with the lubrication of the antifreeze. (:-)
Phil
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