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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Hi all, My timing hole is oval shaped too, so unless Israeli car mechanics of the 60s and 70s learned their job from Muir, the idea must have come from somewhere else. When I first got the car I didn't realise that the hole was supposed to be round. At first I followed Muir and turned the engine over with a screwdriver. Afterwards I came to dislike the method, because it's slow and it looks like it could damage the fan. Since then I have used a big spanner to turn the generator pulley. This worked well once I had my fan belt tensioned correctly. Originally the belt used to slip on the pulley. You can actually turn the engine very accurately using the spanner, as I found out when I timed the engine. Regards, Daniel Baum 1969 Type 34 automatic http://www.qldesign.com/type34 > Maybe I'm just lucky with my engine or something but I've always found > that it will turn over relatively easily by hand - i.e. grabbing the > pulley at the generator end. I'm wondering why there's all this need for > screwdrivers and things? I can see the sense in using a wrench... > > Joe Barnes > 72 FI Fastback > 70 Square > > -----Original Message----- > From: type3@vwtype3.org [mailto:type3@vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Russ > wolfe > Sent: 06 September 2002 14:35 > To: type3@vwtype3.org > Subject: Re: [T3] Timing hole distortion > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 22:09, Steven Ayres wrote: > > RussW=> Put the tranny in 4th gear, then turn the > > => engine over by turning both rear wheels at the > > => same time. Use a test light hooked to the coil, to > > => tell when you are on TDC > > > > And you don't find this just a *tad* complicated? ;) > > > > Not when it is up on a hoist. > Plus, I am getting too old to be crawling in and out under cars so much. > This way, once you are under there, you stay until you are done. > > -- > Russ Wolfe > '66 FB MT (It drove) > '71 FB AT > '65 Bug (not running) > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>