When you guys are installing a new opti, do you have any timing tricks? I put the new one on the exact way the old one came off and no start. Of course it's out of time now. I tried the old procedure that's listed in the Chilton manual and after 6 attempts, no start. What do you guys do? I'm thinking about taking my opti back, surely one time it would have hit.

 

what's the procedue in the chilton's, if you don't mind posting it? im having problems with mine right now, the timing.

 

Well it says to put the pin/slot whatever you wanna call it at the 9:00 position with #1 cyl at TDC. Since I didn't wanna remove the valve cover due to the Delteq to check rocker position nor am I any good at "feeling the cyl" through the spark plug hole, I just put the pin at 9:00 and noted the crank key position. If that one didn't work, I moved the crank back around until my pin was at 9:00 but the crank key had moved so I knew I was on a different stroke. Wouldn't fire on either. I'm not sure that the opti is good. I am gonna put the old one back on today and get it to fire and then immediately try the new one. I may have a bad unit.

 

Never put a 94+ opti on, but the 93 opti's are keyed. If you look at the opti drive shaft if actual is keyed. The opti has a slot and the shaft has a key, sam on the cam end. You can force it on wrong. When installing it, it should sit flush with the timing cover. You should not have to use the bolts to pull it flush.

 

if you didn't do anything to the timing chain or the inside of the opti itself there is no timing procedure. You simply install the opti with the dowl pin in the right location. There are 3 rectangular slots on the back. One of them has a different mark on it. Thats where the cam pin goes.

 

I realize all this. The opti is seated properly.

 

If the opti is seated properly, it wont be out of time

Take it off, and check it. I swore up and down that i had it on properly once when it wouldnt start, and sure enough i some how put it on wrong. Now i always start it bfeore i fill it with coolant

 

Like i said.. Assuming that you changed nothing. How can you physicaly get it out of time? Your problem is elsewhere

 

Well you were right. The problem was elsewhere. My MSD DIS-4 has gone bad or something. I don't understand it. It ran with it fine before the new opti. Not sure what happened. I didn't figure it was the culprit because it had worked just the day before. So I pulled the interface modules out from under my coils and hit the first lick. I was looking in the wrong place for the problem all along. Oh yeah, I always start the thing before I reinstall anything. First time I did the opti, I reinstalled everything and well, had to do it again.