Robotech
Proven Member
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- Aug 28, 2014
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Millers Falls,
Massachusetts
I've been told that you can't turn the engine backwards. I changed out the lifters and turned the engine backwards when one of my paper towels got stuck under some teeth in one of the cam sprockets. It only went backwards maybe 6 inches. I assume that its fine, however, the timing belt between the exhaust/intake sprockets was a little loose now it is night and tight. I assume the tension got taken up somewhere?
I was told by a guy that you don't run it backwards because it will make the tensioner take up the slack somehow. Other people have mentioned that it would cause the belt to jump teeth. I don't believe that it jumped teeth for me, but the tension on the belt seems to have changed at least between the sprockets. I'm trying to understand the physics of what happens when you run this backwards if someone would be so kind as to explain it to me.
Thank you kindly
David
I was told by a guy that you don't run it backwards because it will make the tensioner take up the slack somehow. Other people have mentioned that it would cause the belt to jump teeth. I don't believe that it jumped teeth for me, but the tension on the belt seems to have changed at least between the sprockets. I'm trying to understand the physics of what happens when you run this backwards if someone would be so kind as to explain it to me.
Thank you kindly
David
