Dodge Repair: geo, btdc, no doubt


Question
HI ROLAND I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I GOT YOUR ANSWER ON YOUR GEO QUESTION TONIGHT. I WAS ABLE TO GET INTO MY SYSTEM FROM HOME. THERE WAS A TECH THERE WORKING ON HIS CAR AND HE LEFT THE SYSTEM ON.. IT IS IN YOUR QUESTION TO ME,LAST STATEMENT OF ANSWER. JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU GOT IT...LET ME KNOW HOW IT GOES. GOOD LUCK,,TOM

Answer
Hi Tom,
Yes I got the revised answer that described the plug pin locations of D and E (and no doubt AB and C similarly arranged on the right side. I will go back to the neighbor tomorrow and check that the timing is 5 BTDC with the jump in place. I did notice that without the jump at high idle it was around 18 BTDC as you suggested. Thanks so much for you time and interest.
Roland

Revision:
Hi Tom,
Interestingly I tried the jump using your description of where D and E are, but when I went to do the smog test he found the jumped timing was way retarded (actually was ATDC). He shared with me the drawing of the plug pin assignments which they used to find D and E (which they have to do the jump also for the smog test) and that is when I saw the true assignments. The blank wire is A, so B and C are on that same side of the plug, while DEF are on the other side (D opposite A, etc.). When the jumper was applied that way the timing did indeed change (retarded it) so that when the jump is removed the timing advanced properly. They were very cooperative and let me reset the timing, retested it, and we got a 'pass', finally!.
You might want to check your reference source. I did notice that the D-E jump I did before the test to set it up had no effect on the timing, so I should have suspected it was not correct.
Thanks again, though, for your help.
Roland