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Old 12-04-2007, 03:42 PM
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HI Justin, its always nice to "see" what you are trying to do. Look at it this way the middle top cog and middle right cog are blind cogs, either to control the chain run or drive the distributor. So as long as you have an open chain end on the passenger side camshaft you really only need to keep the drivers side cam and crank in synch as the chain is broken on the passenger side cam so you can reset the cam to where it has to be and then put on the master link. Resetting the distributor is easy at that point as you can always run the chain master link to the drivers side cam, pop the link loosen the chain and reset the distributor drive (not easy but doable) and tension the chain back on the drivers side can and put the master link back on. Just remember the distributor drive is takes (my memory is going again) 7 full revolution to get back to TDC (I hope I got that right I know how to do it but have never counted as I know what I am looking at).
I would be more worried to find out what you are hitting that is stopping the engine turning. at 14 links in (so long as you kept tension on the old chain coming out) something in the engine has to be hitting. There simply are not enough links in there to be sticking on something. I would double check that your cam is not out of synch. did you set the engine at TDC to start and check that both cam marks were showing alignment?

Remember if you have skipped links, just reverse the process back to TDC and then start again.
cheers
Barri
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