Originally Posted by enginenut
... Consider a problem in the cam drive; broken gear tooth...


I considered pulling the front/timing cover off before the head, to try to find the problem... havent ruled it out being a cam drive gear... Decided to rule something related to the head, or that I would be able to see once the head was off, since rotation of the distributor didnt seem to be slipping... I presume if a tooth on the cam gear has broken off, that I'd see that as a pause in the rotaion of the distributor?

I've got a lot to do to figger this out, that's clear. Should get some time this weekend to get at least some answers...

Thanks everybody!

Keith

Last edited by MacX; 08/18/2010 10:46 PM.

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