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Hint 200 1985

posted by  someone claiming to be Eye5 on  Sun Nov 18 23:38 CST 2018 [RELATED]

"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?


When I finally checked the distributor body's orientation I looked at the hold-down bolt. The bolt was tight, heavily oxidized, and not centered in the hold-down slot. It was at one far end of the slot, and had been that way for a while. It does tighten up fine.


I took pains to set all the timing marks correctly. I don't think the timing belt had had a chance to slip. On the 85, the #1 cylinder TDC rotor mark on the distributor body was milled in to the rim of the distributor I think the car would not run because the distributor's hall effect trigger mechanism was very mistimed.





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