[T3] tach calibration

Bryon Garvin spinningrooves at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 19:30:39 PDT 2012


Thanks Jim,

I was actually testing the knock sensor and needed to get it up over 2500
while taking some readings.

Appreciate the help :)

 - Bryon

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 22 Jun 2012 at 11:37, Bryon Garvin wrote:
>
> > Any calibration suggestions are welcome!  BTW, the reason I am asking is
> > because I was working on my Jetta and I was trying to hold the rpms at
> > 2500 for a bit.  I was using the meter to read RPM while standing at the
> > engine.
>
> Tuneup instructions that ask you to set the timing at a speed other
> than idle are generally asking you to do this at max advance, so you
> can do this at any point at or above the stated rpm. You can check
> this by just watching the timing and noting that it advances as the
> rpms increase until it reaches some plateau and then holds steady
> there.
>
> That helps you with the Jetta timing, but not with the Type 3 idle
> speed.
>
> --
> *******************************
> Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> *******************************
>
> _______________________________________________
> VWType3.Org mailing list - type3 at vwtype3.org
> http://lists.vwtype3.org/listinfo.cgi/type3-vwtype3.org
> Contact gregm at vwtype3.org if you need help with the list.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.vwtype3.org/private.cgi/type3-vwtype3.org/attachments/20120626/3d02491e/attachment.htm>



More information about the type3-vwtype3.org mailing list