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Originally posted by Zeitgeist
[ . . . ] and slowly rotating the engine until it popped into place. [ . . . ]
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I presume you mean you rotated the IP until the plunger popped into place!? I wonder which side of the notch I'm seeing then, it doesn't seem to go in at all as it is.
Here is a pessimist thought here, I wonder if the IP was installed off just a little bit. The car has always lagged badly off of the line (has great power after 2k) but it still got good mileage, the more time went on the worse it would smoke. Now it is at the point where I can see smoke behind me at cruise speed at night and my mileage has fell quite noticeably (setting record lows in the upper 20s ;-) ). More info, there was a bolt on the back of the IP which is missing, the hardest one to set and also one of the bolts in the IP has two seal rings on it for some reason. This makes me think that somebody messed with it before and didn't put it back right. Sound plausable? Should I just try setting it as far advanced as possible (as close to the notch) and see how it runs? Oh and the timing chain is brand new.