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I have a timing problem. I bought this car a year ago, and always has run ok, given decent mileage, but has little power and wont go over 5000RPM.
   

Two or three months ago I fixed the vacumm advance and had to retard the timing (by ear) around 5 degrees to get it to stop pinging.
I tried timing it with a timing light and could not get the marks aligned at all

Peugeot Pete sugested the cam belt might be off a tooth
I seems he was right, but short. It seems almost 30 degrees off!

Look: (all pictures clicklable)

This is the crank pulley with a bolt in the hole:
This is where the camshaft ends when the crank pulley is aligned:
Then, there are two marks in the flywheel, aligning one of them gets the camshaft pulley here: (two pictures of the same, different angle) Aligning the second mark, the one I ahd already identified earlier to be 6btdc, aligns the camshaft pulley with the hole perfectly!
finally, when aligning the camshaft hole, this is where the crankshaft pulley ends:
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to actually assemble this engine this weirdly and get it to run? Is this just a case of the wrong crankshaft pulley? Which of the holes on the pulley is the correct one? (I assume it is the 10mm one) (thinking about it, I just think the engine is 192 degrees off, 180 degrees off, plus 12 degrees to align the timing mark with the camshaft TDC)
Episode 2: I removed the cam pulley today. This is what I found, the pulley has the locating tab broken (the rests of it were still on the cam) and was installed 90 degrees off. Its just pure luck the car ran. If you look closely, there is a mark around 90degres clockwise from where the locating tab was. That mark was left by the slot on the cam. No wonder the timing holes did not align. (Yes, the pictures were taken over the envelope in which Bob Bruce sent me some manual pages. I was also fixing my ZF4HP14 today. Thanks Bob :)