[V8] Timing Belt Saga 3

Tony and Lillie tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 2 17:11:37 EDT 2005


Kneale,
>From what you describe, it sounds like the two cams on the passenger side 
are missaligned from each other. Is that the case? If so, you will have to 
pull the chain. I really can't imagine that, though. It would seem that the 
timing would be pretty severly off. Do you have pics?

Otherwise, the cam should turn so eventually the tool lines up. If not, 
something is wrong with the tool or the cam. The tool only goes in one way, 
same as the distributors. I've had one wierd issue on a car where we pulled 
the dizzys, did all the work we needed, and put it back together. For some 
reason, the passenger side distributor would not go back in. Don't 
understand why, but I had to clean up the distributor with a fine tooth 
file. Went back together and it ran fine. Don't know how that worked, but 
whatever!!

Tony Hoffman
Tony Hoffman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kneale Brownson" <kneale at coslink.net>
To: "Dave Head" <v8q at bellsouth.net>
Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [V8] Timing Belt Saga 3


> Here's a good one:  Following David's recommendation, I removed the
> passenger valve cover and discovered that the marks on the timing chain
> gears are not at 3-9 o'clock.  Instead they're at more like 4-10  o'clock.
> So I removed the driver side cover, where I'd already managed to install
> the cam retaining fixture, and the gears are at 3-9.  So this car, which
> started and ran fine for the 3-5K miles I've put on it so far,  had its
> last timing belt installed with the timing gears not aligned on one side.
>
> How do I address this?  The passenger side cam pulley won't move enough to
> align the marks properly. 



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