Thread: timing chain elongation curious results
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Old 11-25-2011, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
Thanks for the photo.

If you are definitely on the opposite side, then you're clearly BTDC.

So, that leaves some other error in the procedure. The intake valve cannot be open by .080" at a point that is 15BTDC.

You are certain that you have the intake valve...........not the exhaust valve?
I thought of that too but it is just as "bad" in my opinion to have any valve opening just before the piston reaches top dead centre - be it the exhaust valve or the intake / inlet...

I am very uneasy about this - I hope fochs has a go at removing the bolt on the camshaft pulley to see if there is an offset key in there despite the bicycle chain nightmares he's been having.
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