I finally got my 1FZFE motor from the rebuild shop and installed in the 93 LC (gas). Identified some leftover bolts thanks to all the input from this forum, and cranked it up. It ran ok despite a high idle so I left it for the night. Today I tried to set the timing and that's when I hit a wall. The timing marks will not line up no matter where I set the distributor.
I followed the usual procedure:
1- put the #1 cylinder at TDC.
2- set the rotor to point at #1 wire on the cap.
3- warmed up motor and turned off AC.
4- jumped the pins on the DLC
5- hooked up the timing light to #1 cyl wire.
The engine started pretty rough but then smoothed out to idle at about 2100 rpm's. When I put the timing light on it I could barely see the pulley mark off to the left of the marks on the timing chain cover. I rotated the distributor counter clockwise until it hit the bolt but I could only get it down to about 13 degrees. I thought I could remove the distributor and jump a gear to bring it back around, but no joy. It would run but the pulley marks were an inch or two on the other side of the numbers, below the 3 degree mark. Finally, I reset it back to where it was supposed to be but left the bolt out so that it would travel past the normal stop. I could get it to go down to 3 degrees when the bolt hole was completely covered but it ran really bad. Almost dying every few seconds.
Any ideas what's going on? My thoughts are that when the rebuild shop installed the new timing chain kit and put the cams back in, they didn't align it correctly. Would that cause this?
I verified that the spark plug wires were all routed correctly and rechecked to make sure my TDC was not 180 degrees off ( not at the top of the exhaust stroke). Any help would be appreciated!
I followed the usual procedure:
1- put the #1 cylinder at TDC.
2- set the rotor to point at #1 wire on the cap.
3- warmed up motor and turned off AC.
4- jumped the pins on the DLC
5- hooked up the timing light to #1 cyl wire.
The engine started pretty rough but then smoothed out to idle at about 2100 rpm's. When I put the timing light on it I could barely see the pulley mark off to the left of the marks on the timing chain cover. I rotated the distributor counter clockwise until it hit the bolt but I could only get it down to about 13 degrees. I thought I could remove the distributor and jump a gear to bring it back around, but no joy. It would run but the pulley marks were an inch or two on the other side of the numbers, below the 3 degree mark. Finally, I reset it back to where it was supposed to be but left the bolt out so that it would travel past the normal stop. I could get it to go down to 3 degrees when the bolt hole was completely covered but it ran really bad. Almost dying every few seconds.
Any ideas what's going on? My thoughts are that when the rebuild shop installed the new timing chain kit and put the cams back in, they didn't align it correctly. Would that cause this?
I verified that the spark plug wires were all routed correctly and rechecked to make sure my TDC was not 180 degrees off ( not at the top of the exhaust stroke). Any help would be appreciated!