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with # 1 cyl at TDP the intake cam is supposed to be at 10 o'clock and the exhaust should be 12. This has to be the worst setup i've ever seen. You can have the exhaust pointing straight up, and it can be 1 tooth or the one next to it, which is right?
setting up the cams in relation to eachother is solid, 20 rollers between the dots on the cam gears. But in relation to the crank, there has to be a better way.
we need some solid say of checking it, and pics would be great.
im gona pull my vc and take pics of mine, im not even sure if its right.
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1992 NX2000, 1998 Honda Civic
60' 1.997 --- 1/8mi 8.387 @ 84.15--- 1/4mi 13.095 @ 103.29 mph Click here to see my nx2000!
ok here we go, i pulled everything apart because i need answers.
Look closely, are the cams advanced 1 tooth? they look like they are a hair to the right. Also with a timing light the flash is way past the marks with the tps unplugged at like 1300 rpm, when i plug in the tps the flashes come back to the marks on the pulley.
You have to keep turning the engine untill the marks on the timing chain show up *and* show up @TDC on #1.
I can't see the marks in your pictures.
Once you get it to turn and you see the marks and it lines up on one or both cams when it is on TDC on #1 you will be able to tell if you skipped a tooth or not.
The only way you can tell if you skipped a tooth is if you have the chain in the right position *as well* as the cams in the right position.
You need a FSM if you don't have one already. Period.
hope that makes sense.
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you can tell by the pictures that it is on the correct stroke. If it skipped on the crank sprocket than things get not so easy b/c the marks can line up on the i/h sprocket but still be incorrect.
There was a good post by 99SE-L that said how to correct your timing. I feel your pain though this happened to me.
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95 200sx SER purple somewhere on the side of the road in Arizona
you can tell by the pictures that it is on the correct stroke. If it skipped on the crank sprocket than things get not so easy b/c the marks can line up on the i/h sprocket but still be incorrect.
There was a good post by 99SE-L that said how to correct your timing. I feel your pain though this happened to me.
how? arent the crank gear and the sprockets close to a 2:1 ratio? I know they shouldnt be 1:1.??
Everything looks okay to me. I always put the exhaust cam at 12:00, then count back 20 pins, and line the intake cam up from there. Try adjusting your idle down to 800 or 900 rom and recheck the timing. You may have to unplug the AAC valve for the idle to drop.
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1991 Sentra SE-R
2004 Subaru Forester turbo
2006 Mitsubishi Evolution IX
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Nick McCollom
99 Infiniti G20
93 Nissan NX2000 14.027 @97.98 (N/A) I wish I had time and money again, this little car has sat for 2 years now. I do miss driving it bad. It will be back soon though faster than ever.
