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95 tracker timing
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I'm working on my son's 95 geo tracker, 16 valve with the california 6 prong plug. After 3 days in the garage it's running okay, but only at about 30 degrees BTDC... skip the next paragraph if you don't like stories.

He was driving to college (local) on a typical April day in upstate NY (wet, cool, not raining and cold). Car started running a little rough, not awful, but it's time for a pitstop. Fills up with fresh fuel for the tracker and Funions for the driver, and about 2 miles down the road it's now running really poorly. It will hardly pull itself away from the stop sign, and crawls into a parking spot when I get the call. I trailer it home, and it's running like the timing is shot (belt intact) with difficulty starting, semi-rough idle and even for the tracker it's lacking power. Pull it into the garage and did the following:

New timing belt/tensioner, check all ignition (plugs, wires) and firing fine, fuel at rail but no pressure tester. Still running awful, hard to start. Double check timing, confirmed belt timed correctly (E@12 o'clock, crank on tdc notch,). Confirmed distributor at 1 o'clock when cyl 1 is top of ignition cycle, cap/rotor appear okay. So I started playing with the timing (jumper installed) and the car evens out and runs good, but only at severely advanced timing. I'm way beyond the timing marks provided, but best guess is about 30 degrees BTDC. The car will drive like this, a little sluggish at low RPM's but pulls at least as good as ever above 1600 rpm's.

To try to combat the easy stuff early; yes, the timing belt was installed (and re-checked) correctly, the cap/rotor are fairly new and the timing was done off cyl 1 spark plug wire (frontmost cyl). Rotor was at 1 o'clock with cyl 1 at top of ignition stroke. Distributor cap is maxed out for advancing timing on adjustment bolt, so it's not as simple as I reinstalled the accessory drive belt on the crank a bolt off, if that's even possible.

Any suggestions?
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95 tracker timing - by caseyvr6 - 05-02-2018, 03:12 AM
RE: 95 tracker timing - by fixkick - 05-03-2018, 10:25 PM
RE: 95 tracker timing - by fixkick - 05-04-2018, 12:09 AM
RE: 95 tracker timing - by fixkick - 05-04-2018, 12:13 AM
RE: 95 tracker timing - by fixkick - 05-07-2018, 03:31 AM
RE: 95 tracker timing - by fixkick - 05-07-2018, 03:43 AM
RE: 95 tracker timing - by caseyvr6 - 05-07-2018, 06:14 AM
RE: 95 tracker timing - by fixkick - 05-07-2018, 09:28 AM
RE: 95 tracker timing - by caseyvr6 - 05-07-2018, 09:32 PM

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