turboglenn
15+ Year Contributor
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- Nov 5, 2007
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RIpley,
West Virginia
A friend of mine who recently acquired a DSM did his own timing belt install just to be safe when he bought it. Since then, things seemed to have went well but he said it didn't feel as powerful in the top end anymore. I figured he got use to a stock 2g. Well, a few days ago he buys a boost guage and the thing is not holding more than 14-16in/hg of vacuum. I go over and check it out, all the vac lines were good or we fixed them, fixed the BISS screw and still no good amount of vacuum.
I told him the only thing left was the timing was off on the cam gears, and sure enough the exhaust cam is 2 teeth retarded. (thank god he messed up "the good way" to where the valves wouldn't hit) I promised to help him, but instead of pulling all the accessories belts, the front mount and everything like a normal T-belt job, is there some way that i can just slip the exhaust cam gear forward a tooth at a time till it's right? The rest of the pulleys will have to be checked but i can cut his timing cover like i did mine, so you can see all the marks, but don't have to take everything off the motor.
Is that tool you can make from the battery bolt for a 1 or 2g motor? I have a 1gin2g so i can't use it with the modified mount setup and am not familiar with it.
Worse case we pull the whole front assemblies off and do it from scratch. but we're doing my tranny and his timing in one day ( an extra half day at the most) So, we're trying to be as efficient as possible.
I told him the only thing left was the timing was off on the cam gears, and sure enough the exhaust cam is 2 teeth retarded. (thank god he messed up "the good way" to where the valves wouldn't hit) I promised to help him, but instead of pulling all the accessories belts, the front mount and everything like a normal T-belt job, is there some way that i can just slip the exhaust cam gear forward a tooth at a time till it's right? The rest of the pulleys will have to be checked but i can cut his timing cover like i did mine, so you can see all the marks, but don't have to take everything off the motor.
Is that tool you can make from the battery bolt for a 1 or 2g motor? I have a 1gin2g so i can't use it with the modified mount setup and am not familiar with it.
Worse case we pull the whole front assemblies off and do it from scratch. but we're doing my tranny and his timing in one day ( an extra half day at the most) So, we're trying to be as efficient as possible.
