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Re: Phil!!! You inspired me!
« Reply #60 on: September 21 2012, 12:47:31 PM »
well, we guessed that one right...Me, I am glad cause I would have felt really bad if it was not.  Makes that rebuild sound kinda strange to me, tho...almost everyone puts a new timing set on when they rebuild one.

If the compression is good, the valves should be fine.

Sounds like more progress than you had thought
Def more progress than I thought.  Given the nature of the rebuild, when i bought the car i literally didnt know shit, meaning the exact mileage of the rebuild, etc. Im learning now though. Its odd that all the teeth would "break" at once? Like the car ran fine until one day I turned it off, and it wouldnt start.

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« Reply #61 on: September 21 2012, 01:14:47 PM »
They can be broken for years and you won' t even know it. The timing chain wrapped over half way around the top gear so you have to lose a bunch of teeths before it shows itself.
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Re: Phil!!! You inspired me!
« Reply #62 on: September 21 2012, 03:47:16 PM »
Thats so weird. And the broken teeth doesn't effect driveability until the wrong moment in most cases huh?

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« Reply #63 on: September 21 2012, 04:10:56 PM »
There's 40 teeth on the top gear and the chain is engaged to 25 of them at all times. It takes a pretty big gap before the load can sheer the rest of them off.

It's like a light switch when it gives up the ghost too. I've had it happen to me twice.
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Re: Phil!!! You inspired me!
« Reply #64 on: September 21 2012, 04:26:37 PM »
what he said  :)
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Re: Phil!!! You inspired me!
« Reply #65 on: September 21 2012, 07:08:13 PM »
Impressed that the number is 26, must be a really loose chain :) 


edit: crap, forgot the other gear is small , Earl probably counted them anyways
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« Reply #66 on: September 21 2012, 08:06:49 PM »
it gets looser as the teeth wear down and then off

remember it is a coating not the complete gear
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Re: Phil!!! You inspired me!
« Reply #67 on: September 25 2012, 10:47:09 AM »
makes sense.

 

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