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Old 03-31-2016, 12:04 AM
samueljmullen samueljmullen is offline
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I damaged the original pump when I was replacing the seals on top. I have had the pump in and out, including a bad one I bought, so I'm sure it's very possible this happened. How...I don't know. When I removed the pump, I just removed it without using a lock tool...in the process of working on it, I may have turned the engine over the course of a few months, then when reinstalling, maybe that's when, I turned the engine over to align the harmonic balancer 15 degrees after TDC. That's probably what happened, when I turned it, I rotated it 180 degrees.

All I can say is wow, I've been pulling my hair out the last couple of weeks after buying a new pump and installing it. So the unburnt fuel is the sign that it's 180 degrees off. Awesome. Now I know what's wrong with it, thanks!! How do I go about fixing this.

Just pull the pump out rotate the engine until it's 15 ATDC again and assume I'm on the right stroke this time?

I'm confused on how this happened, I will have to research 4 stroke cycles to understand it. I thought that simply installing the lock tool in the IP was enough. I didn't know it had to be installed on the right stroke.
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