Re: Timing Chain wear allowance

Posted by Tim Stockwell On 2020/6/30 17:11:07

Again Dave thank you for helping me. To answer your questions:
I have confirmed that gas is getting to the cylinders. Today I took all the plugs out and saw some where soaked with gas. I would say the gas is fresh. Here in Oregon I only use non-ethanol and it is not very old. It doesn't have a turpentine smell at all.

The car was sitting my garage several months and I tried to start it in November. It would not start so after some troubleshooting, I found the fuel pump had gone bad. I ordered a new one from Max Merritt, cleaned all the lines, drained and flushed the tank and she fired right up.
However, that is when I noticed the back of the cylinder head was cracked. So I drover her to my 60x50 workshop, (barn conversion) to begin the teardown. This was in early February. So with all of this Covid-19 insanity, I was unable to get the head back from the machine shop for 3 1/2 months. "Commercial" work to precedence.

To answer your question...yes I am trying to start the engine without the timing cover on and damper removed, only so that I am not wasting time with assembly and disassembly and of course, as soon as it would fire up I would shut her down and clean up all the oil. That is another thing. With all the cranking, I see the oil pump doing its job by pumping some out to the timing chain.

One other thing, I did check the dwell and point gap. there were 27 degrees and .017 as the manual requires.

What should I do now? Should I inspect the tappets and locate the compression stroke for #1 cylinder?

Tim