Diesel Addict (and anybody else) - Clarification please - regarding your note -"Look for the last degree at which you get full flow out of your drip tube by priming the hand pump. That's your timing point." Do I bring the engine to 24 deg BTDC (+/- 1 deg) and then swing the IP away from the block, while pumping the hand pump, until I find the spot where full flow (steady stream -no drips & drops?) stops? Step by step instructions would really help.

Right now, the IP timing is clearly wrong - engine will start only with almost full throttle applied, and once warm, it lopes badly and only barely idles, smells like raw fuel in the gray cloud behind the car, and it clatters like hell. I now have the IP set at the point where fuel first "wells up" into the bottom of IP bore where the #1 fuel element/delivery valve go - with the engine at 24 deg BTDC. That sounds like too advanced a setting, in view of your comments. I gave up on using a drip tube because it seemed like the flow was more dependent on how fast I pumped than the IP's position, but I can try it again if I better understand the procedures. Thanks, BigMac