[DeTomaso] Pandora question

John Buckman jb841 at cox.net
Fri Nov 26 12:04:12 EST 2010


Chris,

Interesting.  Sounds like that is the way it was done at the rebuild??  Perhaps the wrong? balancer was installed.

When you did the TDC check, exactly where was the timing pointer (on the front of the engine) pointing (relative
to the TDC mark on the balancer)?

John



On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Christopher Kimball wrote:

> Well, the car had some problems that seemed non-timing related.  When I got caught in the rain once, the car refused to start and had to be taken home on a flatbed.  After sitting in the garage and drying out for a few days, it then started fine.  It sounded like either an electrical problem (water in the distributor, for instance) or perhaps water in the carb.
> 
> After Stephan had taken off the carb and discovered a number of issues with it, he put it all back together and that's when he was going to adjust the timing and the strangeness was observed.  Until that time the car had run fine, unless it was wet, in which case it sometimes wouldn't start.  This also is more evidence that the damper is probably not slipping, since if it were the black magic marker mark probably wouldn't still be the mark at which the car runs best (which it is)--slippage would have caused the magic marker mark to be at some random point, not lined up perfectly with the pointer , when observed using a timing light.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Chris
> 
> > From: jb841 at cox.net
> > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:11:04 -0800
> > To: detomaso at realbig.com
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pandora question
> > 
> > Chris,
> > 
> > Backing up to square one, did this timing issue start suddenly, or was it a gradual progression?
> > 
> > John
> > 




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