[T3] Starting Problem

[Tony Rongey]

Hmm.  It was late and I was tired when I put the distrubutor back in.  It felt right, but I'll double check that this evening.
 
PS: Here is the pic of the valve as promised.  You might not want to look at this if you just ate and own an old VW.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/trongey/Type3/SunkenValve.jpg
 
Tony
'70 Fastback, AT/FI (will be a daily driver as soon as I get it working again)

From: Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org>
To: type3 at vwtype3.org 
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [T3] Starting Problem


On 12 Jan 2014 at 21:00, Tony Rongey wrote:

> OK.  So I had to replace a head this weekend; the #3 exhaust valve had sunk about 1/2" (I'll upload the gory pics later).
> I got everything back together, and now when it try to start it will crank like it's trying to start then will suddenly kick back.  It doesn't backfire, it just sort of locks on one cylinder then cranks more slowly after that.
> What have I got wrong?

To replace the left head, you probably removed the distributor. I'm 
going to guess that you didn't get it installed ALL the way back down 
into engagement with the drive gear. That will put the timing all 
wrong, or perhaps it's just not turning at all. Either way, it could 
give you these symptoms.

Just a guess.

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