I just love the image of a grandmother hooning around in a GLT :lol:

my granny can't drive any more ... but she has someone who drives for her ...

about 28000km of the 31408km my dad drove while he was studing about 25 years ago ... the car was parked in a garage nearly its whole life ... now I ...

sunday i drove the car back to my grandmother ...

everything seems to be ok ...

engine is running really strong and without any vibrations at idle after it is fully warmed up ...

i love this engine ... it has so much torque from idle up to about 5500 that you dont have to shift if you want to ...

engine is running

i'm so stupid

there is a kable running from the distributor to the ignition modul (little black part) and the big plug wasn't plugged in any more ...

after plugging it in engine started right after the third turn

thanks for your help

bernhard

I suspect you haven't lined up the auxiliary pulley correctly. The third one with the big wheel that feels like it doesn't do anything also has a mark which should be lined up with the belt marks and also the mark on the casing. This pulley drives the rotor arm so that needs to be in line also ...

i didn't touch or unplug any sensor ... i even don't know where this crank position sensor is :?

i forgot to check if the sparks are fireing ... i will do that today ...

the engine is cranking over but it seems like just with no spark ...

batterie is full ... engine should work without the ...

hello

today i changed the timing belt of my grandmothers 1982 360 GLT

this is the easiest timing belt i have ever changed ... everything worked fine but now the engine won't start any more ...

i drove to my garage ... so the engine ran bevor i started working ... not very good but it worked ...

Glowing exhaust manifold and no power could be massively retarded ignition timing. That (in theory) can't happen on later 300s because of the Renix system, but an early 360 has a 'normal' distributor, with triggering inside the distributor.

I suspect the t-belt has skipped a tooth or two, throwing ...

oil an water levels are correct ... water is clear and no oil in it ...

thermostat works great and the radiater looks like new

i`d check if i can get on of this haynes manuals ... i think i have one of these for my triumpf tr-6

bernhard

Hello

i hope my english is good enough to explain it correctly ...

car is a 1982 360 GLT
original 31250 KM
my grandmother is the first owner ;)

yesterday i was driving around about 110km/h ...
suddenly the engine wasnt making power any more

i drove about 3km to the next town and looked at the ...