Re: Mooing Rambler - BACKFIRING - timing chain wear check...

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I would STILL like to reiterate, endlessly endlessly,
one step at a time!

* Timing is everything. If the mark is not in the right spot,
that's serious. It has to be corrected (or identified to be
non-harmful) before doing hardly anything else.

If it's due to: timing chain jump, rotten balancer rubber, wrong
balancer? wrong mark read (see below), etc etc there's utterly
no point in continuing until THAT is fixed. Period, end of story.

Are you sure you're reading things right? Get some gloves,
some Purple cleaner, a plastic scrubber or steel wool, a wire
brush and scraper, and CLEAN IT ALL OFF. You should be damned
sure you're actually looking at the right marks. 

YOu can clean off the whole balancer easy enough laying under
the car (dont get that purple crap in you eyes) by rotating
the engine a couple of times. I use paint-pens, but a popsicle
stick will do, put a bright line of WHITE paint in the balancer
timing mark. The mark should be a simple stamped groove the
width of the flat part of the balancer. Paint it white.

The little old-fashioned looking thing with the marks and the
numbers, must be clean (its hard) and I mark TDC and 5 BTDC with
white paint. Its got marks for 4 and 6, I put paint between them.

Are you sure you know what they look like? Do you have a
Technical Service Manual for the car? You absolutely MUST have
one, or a copy. Can you look at someone else's motor to compare?

Does your timing light have the knob on the back that zero's
the timing? If so, I hope you know how to use it!


Unless YOU do YOUR homework, no one here can help you. Don't

go on to the next step until the first one is done.