help please timing set marks

[tonxs]

hi can some one please help me.i need help with setting up .the timeing on a mercury 50hp outboard.can someone please tell how me ...how i set up the timeing on this please.i have a mark on the distributor ...on top of the pully.and a mark on the flywheel.do i set number one piston to tdc ...and line the marks on top of the. flywheel and distributorl.in line with the rota pointing at number one piston at tdc.help please lostits the old mercury with the coil in the distributor

 

[Yepblaze]

Re: help please timing set marks

on what?

Make?
Year?
Model?
Serial number?

 

[tonxs]

Re: help please timing set marks

thank you i will have to get the number of the engine. at the moment i just no that its as the old distributor on.this engine.. the one with the small belt going to the flywheel and distriband.and coil built in the distrib .. just need a little help setting this up

 

[Yepblaze]

Re: help please timing set marks

Not having much of a clue what you are even trying to work on....


TDC on number one?

TDC mark on flywheel should align with tdc marker and dimple under the plate on dist pulley?


PS, do you really need the angry red sour face icon/smiley attached to this post?

 

[tonxs]

Re: help please timing set marks

hi thank you for your help. sorry for the angery face.its just a bit of a job. when your not all clued up.in watt your doing.right the engine is a mercury kiekhaefer 50hp . serial number t519277. i had a look for the dimple on the distributor. .but i can not sea it. just that little arrow.on the pully.any how thank you. if you can give me some more help. i will for ever be in your det.regards tony

 

[achris]

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Sorry, that serial number is not valid... should be 7 digits, no letters....

Chris......

 

[tonxs]

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hi yes thank you.my fault serial number 1519277 thank you

 

[achris]

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hi yes thank you.my fault serial number 1519277 thank you

IT'S A WHITE ONE!!! 1962!!! My books don't go that far back!!! Sorry, can't help you....

Chris...........

 

[tonxs]

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ok thank you. can you please .help me the way i set it up on the timeing... just how you wood you set it up with the marks. and i will give it a go. i no i have to make sure number one piston.is at tdc. now do i line up the pully mark to the flywheel.mark the one on .. top of the distributor.then do i turn the flywheel back a bit so its just off tdc. then put the belt back on. makeing sure. the rota arm is pointing at number one fireing mark on the distributor.

 

[achris]

Re: help please timing set marks

My books start at 1975... I'm not even going to have a guess at something from 1962 without seeing it... Sorry....

Chris.............

 

[Yepblaze]

Re: help please timing set marks

Sounds like you have a grasp of it.

Sometimes the mark will be off ever so slightly, but one tooth off on the belt is a bunch, and you will see that.

If this is a new to you magneto (distributor) make sure the plug wire positions on the dist cap correspond with the cylinders that are fireing. The firing order should be cast into the area where the spark plugs go, or you can just turn it over by hand and determine firing order by the way the pistons come up to TDC in quarter turns of the flywheel. Clockwise from above (I believe)

PS I believe that is called a Magneto and those get serviced too.

You can drop the lower section of the magneto with those four little bolts, remove and disassemble the point set then file each contact square, flat, and perfectly clear of any pits, or points. Re assemble and set to .008 in (that's really a thing feeler guage)

 

[tonxs]

Re: help please timing set marks

ok thanks. to all members .with there help.right i had a go at it again.i have two marks on my flywheel. one says tdc and just to the left of that mark on the flywheel . i have one more mark. .....now on the pully of the distributor were the belt go/ i have the arrow on the pully.so i set number 1 at tdc lined up the flywheel with the mark at tdc .and now when i turn the flywheel the seconed mark lines up with the arrow on the distributor pointing right in the center of the flywheel and in line with the seconed mark . is this right now.????????::

 

[Yepblaze]

Re: help please timing set marks

I'd have to go find the book and look.

It sounds pretty close though.

Are you using the mark on the plate that covers the dist pulley, or the mark on the pulley itself under the plate?

 

[tonxs]

Re: help please timing set marks

I'd have to go find the book and look.

It sounds pretty close though.

Are you using the mark on the plate that covers the dist pulley, or the mark on the pulley itself under the plate?

yes i am lineing the pullly plate up with tdc on the flywheel . then take plate pully plate off .to see if the arrow is lined up. and it is lined up with the mark to the left of tdc on the flywheel .and with the arrow.with number one piston at tdc.have i got this right now.thank you

 

[tonxs]

Re: help please timing set marks

hi guys ...good news got it running just to set up carbs and links thanks to all