SPILL CUT OFF TIMING

The injector pump timing is imperative to the easy starting and smooth running of the engine, as over time the chain will have inevitably stretched a little and altered the timing.

Back to basics

As shown over the last couple of issues of the magazine, I have been rectifying the mess made by a college rebuild of a TE-F20 Ferguson. They had altered the timing to help ease the ‘morning sickness’ (knocking) on start-up. For some reason they had shimmed the big ends, leaving the clearances too big. In doing so, they had left the tractor unable to tick over and have little power. With the timing marks on the replacement sprockets differing from those removed from the tractor, it was back to basics, setting the crank to TDC and getting the valves in the right place, by rotating the camshaft, before fitting the new timing