timing marks made the engine knocking

[Huw Powell]

>   Timing belt adjustment:
> 
>   I followed the Bentley procedure and from others guys here.
>   Order of work:
>   1. Align crank timing marks in back of engine, at 0, same as front crank pulley.
>   2. check and align camshaft sprocket; mark to the upper edge of the head gasket

Not head gasket, cam cover gasket!

>   3. check and align distributor; !!! 
> 

As a later PS, if someone pulled the camshaft to install new lifters 
they might have let the distributor turn before reinstalling and thus 
left them "out of timing" without the dist. clamp being ever undone.

-- 
Huw Powell

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