"...half an hour" he says.  :)

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Cardell
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 6:30 PM
To: Glenn Johnson; [email protected]
Subject: EXTERNAL: RE: Water Pump, Timing Belt, and Coils

You are using the +10 ign setup mode, right? If only you'd had a Ninja tool....
You can pull the VC and top plastic cover, reach in with open end 14mm to 
loosen tensioner pulley. Use the regular TDC marks on the front pulley (damper) 
timed to the plastic cover, no need to see the notch on the crank sprocket. 
Shouldn't take half an hour.


Bill Cardell
Owner
Flyin' Miata
1-800-359-6957 (sales)
970-464-5600 (tech support)
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From: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glenn Johnson
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:23 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Water Pump, Timing Belt, and Coils

Hi folks,

I need a quick bit of collective analysis: I just changed the water pump on my 
'97 FMII with Link, thought I'd been meticulous with the timing belt part but 
the base timing now looks like it's advanced 14 degrees - white dot indicating 
14 degrees, yellow to the left of it off the scale.

I'm guessing it's not just that it cam timing was wrong before and I've just 
corrected re-fitting the timing belt, as if try to adjust the base timing back 
to indicating correctly the car will stall before I've got there.

Assuming the worst, how little of a strip down can I get away with to set the 
cam timing again?  Can you get the covers off with the accessory belts and 
water pump and crank pulleys in place, and see the crank shaft mark?

Finally, trying to work out a misfire under boost that's not been affected by 
changing leads or plugs and re-gapping to 0.8 mm.  I've had a coil pack go 
before and it was immediate and complete, i.e. straight to firing on two 
cylinders.  Here the car is fine off boost and even up to 12 PSI or so.  Do 
coils have failure modes like this?  Would I be able to determine from a data 
log whether the misfire was an ignition or a fuelling issue?

Thanks in advance,

Glenn
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