In my quest to conquer my overheating problem, this weekend I checked the timing per the manual. Really pretty simple.
1) I removed the fuelline on #1 injector at the pump, rotate the engine until you see fuel move in the delivery tube. You want to stop at the slightest movement.
2) When I did this for a living I used this tool. Sort of a sight glass to easily see the fuel move. I would have to remove the intake manafold to put this on so I bypasses it.
3) remove the side place on the bell housing and observe the timing marks. you can see the 20 degrees on the right, the line on the left is 15 degrees. Specs call for 17-19 degrees. The camera angle might be off but I'm pretty much right on 17 degrees.
No adjustments on the timing today. But those remembing my overheating woesI have some sort of good news. I ran the L pretty hard pulling a disk. The temp got a little over the half way mark and remained there. However it was a cool day, we''ll see this summer.
Rob
Thanks for the informative response! And a few years later the saga continues
My BOSCH inline pump doesn't seem to have the view-port or I'm too dumb to find it. It's on a normally aspirated F6L912 in my 1991 Deutz-Fahr-Dx-6.05 (european model).
The good book says to time it with a drip check but I have no idea what pressure to use and don't wanna blow the casing up with the only hand pump I have, an injector testing pump. This ritual requires the inlet port to be pressurised and the #1 outlet port to to have a u-tube where a forming drop is to be observed. It doesn't say what to see before the drip nor after, is it a last drop or a first one, etc. I would have expected a more professionally written procedure like
1 - Back the crank to about 90 degrees before compression TDC
2 - Hang a u-tube on #1 outlet port (line to #1 injector removed)
3 - Pressurize the inlet port 20-40psi(?) with a hand pump, maintain pressure.
4 - Observe no dripping out of u-tube (or no-flow as the case may be "I JUST DON'T KNOW!")
5 - Turn crank sneaking back up toward compression-TDC
6 - Stop when Fisrt/(OR is it Last?) drop forms on end of u-tube, THAT is "Commencement of Delivery"
I got this so screwed up I really wanna do another drill instead BUT my pump doesn't seem to have a view-port. The last 912 I did was in 2008 and on that one I just reused the pump and reinstalled it to punchmarks made during stripping.
This is a rebuilt pump with the cover screws sealed, the minute I break those open the value of the pump goes to 'core' but if necessary I can look in there too. Would really appreciate step-by step guidance on this so that I don't just FUBAR the whole procedure. I've got compression-TDC very precisely marked.
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This pump doesn't BTW seem to have a timing pin OR a view-port
I have since found the above info but it's a bit ambiguous from 2-3psi to 200-300psi