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Stabbed correctly? Its in the right firing order. new valve seats were put in the head and a valve job was done. It has a new timing chain on it. All the marks were lined up.
hmmm just which marks?
lol, you may have done what I did?
I dont know. I did not rebuild it. My neighbor did.
Its his truck. I Do volvos 4 bangers.
He said he lined them up like the book says. Chilton / Haynes.
It sound to me like it may be 180 degrees off but I dont know.
What did you do?
What is the correct way?Pull the valve cover, make sure its TDC and make sure they did not use the cam gear mark lined up with the mark on the rocker tower, if they did its wrong.
What is the correct way?
The slot(key hole) in the cam gear should be facing stright up which will put the mark on the gear offset counter clockwise like a degree or so
Would that be enough for it not to fire and run like crap?
Didnt for me, **** thing would not hit at all.
Cool his I just texted him and his father in law basically told him the same thing.
We will give it a shot and see what happens.
Thanks for the help.
Will update.
I know there is a link on here to adjust the chain somehow. I read it in another post but there was no link. it was just by removing the valve cover any ideas on that?
Just pull the cover, jam the crank gear with something to hold it still, undo the cam bolt, make blasted sure you dont drop the chain, adjust as needed. Now the biggest thing is when you go to but the gear/and chain back on you will need to take a long screwdriver and take it and push the tensioner back in so your not fighting to get the gear back on.
whatever you do, never turn the engine counter clockwise.
When I do mine I actually dont perfectly set the notch straight up with the mark on the rocker tower, I set it just a hair counterclockwise then when its altogether just take my wrench turn then I got tension on the chain on the drivers side like you should.
Ok Re checked the timing. Everything is ok. Put the dist at 12 olclock and pushed it in so it would rotate caounter clockwise to number one on the cap.
It just turns over no fire no sputter nothing.
I check spark and fuel again. Its all good. anyother ideas?