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After recently having a break down that gave my engine a tick, a significantly loss of power, and making it have a hard start up that wont continue to run unless the throttle is applied..Anyways, I removed my valve cover to take a look into the top of the engine. Besides for a small piece of shrapnel nothing seemed to be to wrong. We then found out that the timing was very far off.
We reset both camshafts to the correct positions-don't worry we took them out and applied Moly paste to the journals and also set the crankshaft to the right spot..After that we put the chain back onto the sprockets, counting the links in the chain many times to make sure that there were only 21 in between the intake cam & exhaust cam.
We cranked the crankshaft clockwise 3 times to turn the engine..After the crankshaft was set to were it was suppose to be only the exhaust cam was back in the correct position-the intake cam was off.. We moved the chain to have only 20 links in between but it was far to tight..After measuring the distance in the chain from the exhaust cam to intake cam the distance came out to be about 6.455 in which is over the service limit of 6.220 in according to the FSM.
My brother & I could only come to the conclusion that my cam chain is stretched, which is what cause the problem in the first place. Has anybody heard of that happening? And if so is the only option to replace the chain?
Thank you!
We reset both camshafts to the correct positions-don't worry we took them out and applied Moly paste to the journals and also set the crankshaft to the right spot..After that we put the chain back onto the sprockets, counting the links in the chain many times to make sure that there were only 21 in between the intake cam & exhaust cam.
We cranked the crankshaft clockwise 3 times to turn the engine..After the crankshaft was set to were it was suppose to be only the exhaust cam was back in the correct position-the intake cam was off.. We moved the chain to have only 20 links in between but it was far to tight..After measuring the distance in the chain from the exhaust cam to intake cam the distance came out to be about 6.455 in which is over the service limit of 6.220 in according to the FSM.
My brother & I could only come to the conclusion that my cam chain is stretched, which is what cause the problem in the first place. Has anybody heard of that happening? And if so is the only option to replace the chain?
Thank you!
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