AndyKrashYota

So i did the timing and all that on my 93 22re a month ago and i have the distributor all the way slid down and it wont time out to 5 degrees. Am i a tooth off on timing gears?

When i did the rebuid i put the dash mark up top to left looking down the motor. am i a tooth off on the wrong side of 12 oclock

85toy4runner

I found this on youtube about 22re distributors

AndyKrashYota

So might that mean I'm still a tooth off. It runs good but not great

Toyota~Boy

iTrader: (2)

From what your describing your either off on chain or off on distributor. Either way your off

AndyKrashYota

Looking down the motor should the timing gear mark be 12 o'clock but slightly left or right?

AndyKrashYota

So I took a look an my timing chain mark is slightly to the left of 12 o'clock looking down the motor from the front.

Is that correct? Cause at tdc on my combustion stroke and on my pulley at 0. I can only adjust the timing chain to almost 12 or either slightly passed 12, it's never falls directly on 12 oclock

abeD85flatbed

You should not need to set the distributor timing at precisely zero, every 22re, 22r 20r I have ever worked on runs best at approximately 12 degrees advanced. I would always set the motor to about10 to12 degrees before top dead center then stab the distributor in so it ends up pointing at number one. Every engine, every time, ran exceptionally well at this degree of advancement. Some say this is too far, but this is how many left the assembly line. Having the bright link slightly to the left/ passenger side on the cam gear is how it should be.

AndyKrashYota

So in that sense. If I time the pulley to 10-12 degrees should I still have to adjust the timing chain to land on 12

abeD85flatbed

No, set the timing chain exactly as it should be. Do not run advancement through chain adjustments between the timing gears. When you set Top Dead Center for the bottom end piston #1 will be at the top, and the alignment post on the face of the cam should be as well, but because of tooth spacing on the cam gear the bright link in the chain has to sit to one side or the other slightly, it should sit just off to the passenger side of the vehicle, also the timing mark on the crank pulley should be pointing to 0 on the timing marks cast into the oil pump. Once this is accomplished you either need to turn the motor backwards until it indicates 12 degrees advanced or turn it forward almost TWO rotations of the crank until it indicates the proper amount of advancement. Then you can set the distributor to number one. Try to leave wiggle room in either direction so you can turn it forward and back slightly to find the sweet spot. Just listen to the motor as you slowly move it to find where it runs the best.
Some people really like to set their advancement through the chain and timing set, but then it is more involved should you want to change it later. This way all you have to do is pull the distributor to make adjustments larger than what is allowed through the narrow window provided in the distributor body itself.

AndyKrashYota

Ill give that a shot right now. But I think my true problem is that possibly I have the wrong year distributor housing. Unless 90-93 were all the same

AndyKrashYota

I swear the distributor housing are different. Idk what else it could be.

abeD85flatbed

where did you get the distributor from that you are trying to use? Are the splines on the distributor shaft not engaging on the cam?

AndyKrashYota

I got it off CL from a guy that said it was from a 90 or 91 but I think the housings are shaped differently. I might be wrong. I'm driving the truck every day but I just can't get it dialed in because no matter if I go a spline ahead or after on the distributor, I have to have the housing rotated all the way up or down, never in between. And I checked everything else and my timing chain is 12 o'clock slightly passenger side with my pulley zeroed out

abeD85flatbed

OK, you said this was for a 22re, is this a distributor for a 22re? I know there are differences between them and the 22r distributors, mainly the vacuum advance unit on the side of the dist. When you say the housing is all the way up or down do you mean adjusted all the way one direction possible with the adjusting bolt threaded into the block? You should be able to have the truck running while you slowly turn the dist. through the possible adjustment allowable for that tooth.
Sorry to start from the beginning but are you certain the bottom end was set to TDC when you set the timing? just trying to cover all the bases

AndyKrashYota

I'm 99.9 percent sure its adjusted correctly on my timing chain and pulley and combustion #1. The distributor might not be from a 22re, I can only adjust it all the way to one end depending on what spline position I insert it on.

abeD85flatbed

If it has the vacuum advane module on the side of the dist., like the one pictured on the start screen of the youtube video it is for a carburated model, and requires a vacuum advance to properly run. Can you tell what is keeping it from adjusting the other direction or does it just make the engine run poorly? Without the bolt inserted into head to hold it in place it should be able to rotate nearly all the way around. If I still had spare parts for these motors I would go and look at one. I think my friend still has a few around, I will try to go and look at his and see if the castings are different. i know he still has one to run the 20r/22r hybrid I sold him. it is for a 22r.

AndyKrashYota

Yea without the bolt I can rotate it almost 360. I work at a welding school so I might just take a cutoff wheel and notch out one side of it and see if that works. Other than that I'm stumped