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Post by RustyJusty on Sept 18, 2004 14:38:42 GMT -5
Recently, after taking the timing belt off and working on the blanacer chain, I accidently rotated the crankshaft slighty. I rotated it back to where I thought it originally was and continued with my work and put the belt and everything back on. I think I may have failed to reposition the crankshaft properly, and thus the crank and cams are out of sync... possibly up to 2 belt teeth. How do I go about insuring that the two are sync'd up properly? The car doesn;t start up even tho it has fuel, spark and air. Repositioning the distributor only helps slightly... only if I turn it all the way towards the firewall. In that position, the engine sounds like it tries to "catch" every now and then. Which way do you think I should rotate the crank a notch or two?
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DBA
I'm going to rallye with a Justy
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Post by DBA on Sept 20, 2004 5:57:33 GMT -5
Man you're damn lucky that the Justy engines don't break when the timing belt isn't installed properly. Every other car would have blown the engine ...
To the point:
You'll neet do look at two things. First, deinstall the timing belt. You now have the upper teeth plate (for the camshaft) and a half sized gear down there. Both have small spots on them. The crank shaft gear has a spot on it an the aluminium housing also. These two have to be in sync.
The upper teeth plate also has a spot or a hole. THis has to be in sync with ..... darn - will have to look it up again in the manual. But I think it has to be just upside (look if there is a spot in the plastic).
Greetings, Klaus
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Post by RustyJusty on Sept 24, 2004 11:01:06 GMT -5
lucky me. I did turn the engine over a few times by hand to make sure no valve interference would occur. I lined up the dot and the crankshaft key... belt was off two teeth. Reset the belt and she started on the first turn of the key.
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