Hey, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with the following problem:

When timing my car, I adjust it from TDC to almost killing the motor from timing retardation, but it will not advance past ~2 degrees past TDC. The car thus runs slowly and is getting sub-optimal mileage.

Is there an adjustment inside the distributor that could be tweaked to fix this? The timing belt itself is on correctly, as I did the TB myself and checked it multiple times, per the instruction manual.

 

Has this problem always happened?

 

Sounds like the timing belt skipped a tooth. Check the mechanical timing.

 

No, it hasn't always happened. I was afraid someone would say that about it skipping a tooth. fml.

 

It either skipped or was timed incorrectly. Don't get me wrong, my first time setting mechanical timing on my D15b was a biatch. Took forever to even get a good diagram and was still tricky.

All in all that is definitely your problem if you cant get ignition timing set. I guarantee you're off 1 tooth.

Also if you have driven it and it happens to have no *****, it points even more towards that.

 

I have to agree with Ron that it skipped a tooth. If you've adjusted it as far as it can go and still can't get it correct then something else is wrong.

Skipping a tooth isn't the end of the world or the motor just put it back right and you should be good to go.

 

Thanks for all the input! I will try to remember to check back in to let you all know what it was.