stevedak
Dodge Dakota
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7/16/2009
06:31:01
|  RE: please help timing question
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Stick to your original post Jake, it makes it easier for people to follow your progress and help out.
When you pull the pin from the secondary tensioner, it should spring tight. The tension in the chain increases and decreases as the motor turns, you should see the tensioner move in and out to provide tension. When the motor is running, an oil passage behind the tensioner feeds it oil, so there is more resistence, more pressure on the tensioner when the engine is running.
One bank out of time, I've done it but its hard to explain in writing. For the bank you are working on, you gotta remove the tensioner, compress it and install the pin to hold it in a retracted position. Reinstall tensioner, retracted, with pin installed in tensioner. If the chain is off the timing mark on the intermediate sprocket (in the middle), you gotta remove the chain from the cam and redo that bank from scratch. Its tough getting the marks on the intermediate sprocket lined up, I found it easier to take the chain off both cam sprockets and start over.
If the marks on the intermediate sprocket are lined up but you are off at the cam, then you need to get something to hold the chain in place on the intermediate sprocket so you can remove the cam sprocket without disturbing the intermediate alignment. WHat I did was stuff a rubber bicycle inner tube between the timing chain midway between the intermediate and cam sprockets. This will hold the chain in place. Then take off the cam sprocket, align marks on chain with marks on sprocket (if you can't align marks, position the chain on sprocket so when it does rotate around, the marks will align), rotate the cam so you can get the gear on. This is easy if you are only off by a tooth or two.
I can't do it justice, again its hard to write out instructions. Hopefully this helps.
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