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<x-flowed>Can't help with the valve prob.
Thank you,
Gary Gamboa
From: "Ben Wampler" <webmaster@erupt.com> Reply-To: type3@vwtype3.org To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Subject: RE: [T3] valves Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:49:44 -0500
>Both valves? There are things that can go wrong that can make one valve not >adjust, but the odds of something happen to both are pretty small, especially >if your engine still seems to run okay.
>The firing order is 1 4 3 2. You can adjust them this way and move the dist 90 >deg CW between each one, or do them in reverse: 1 2 3 4 and go 90 deg CCW >between each one.
Tried it again today, same thing, they won't adjust. I just left them fairly loose and put it back together.
The car started fine, but today I drove it to work and I noticed it had no power and was seemed to be bogging really bad as if I was towing something heavy (also slight smell of gas from exhaust). I took it home and tried to adjust the timing with a strobe-light. The pointer lined up with the mark to the far right on the pulley, muir's book said it should be on the far left, top dead center. So I set the timing to TDC, the far left mark, and now it's much worse. It can barely take off and it idles poorly.
I pulled off each spark plug wire and they are all getting spark.
Does anybody have any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong or what I might check?
Thanks a lot!
PS- anybody know what would make turn signals not blink, just light up constantly? Flashers work, but signals don't. Thanks!
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