AND... One last Note...

As GSXR said in a post somewhere here... the IP should slide out fairly easilly once everything holding it (wires, fuel hard lines and soft lines, vacuum, and the four Bolts) are disconnected.

It should also slide back in very easily. You should not have to pull it in by the bolts drawing it in. It needs to easily slide into the splines of the timing device. If not move it a little and try again.

Also note (both suggested to me by Sixto and GSXR) that it's good to center the IP in it's adjustment range so you can adjust the timing a bit either way if you need to at a later time. I put mine back just like it was when I took it out since I don't trust the needle on my harmonic balancer. It worked just fine. Actually the car seems to be a little peppier. Could be my imagination. But then again the ip has a bunch of new seals so it could truly be a little peppier than it was! Either way, glad to have the job done.

Also... don't mess with the IP's timing. Leave it unless you're REALLY must adjust it. The original Block to IP o-ring will be hard and stretched. It could leak like mine did.

That's why I had to do this in the first place. I'm confident I wouldn't have had the leak if I wouldn't have disturbed the old o-ring. DON'T mess with the timing unless you plan on making an oil leak and doing a 10 hour job like I did! But my IP has all new seals at the common leak points. So I'm glad I did it!

And MAN were the old seals dried out hard and brittle. The side plate gasket had really shrunk. I can see why these 603 IP's leak like they do when they get old. Rubber seals only last so long. I highly recommend changing the seals if you have your ip out. The side plate wouldn't be bad with the IP in I wouldn't think. Pretty doable. Same for the o-rings on the shut-off and stop lever. The back (ELR) and bottom plate seals are another story. But super easy when the IP's out.

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