Clutch GSX
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- Nov 28, 2006
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Denver,
Colorado
I am trying to install Fidanza adjustable cam gears but they did not come with any instructions. Below is a picture of the alignment marks. As you can see they do not line up and the teeth are off. Both gears are turned as far as they can inward without compressing the springs. The intake gear seems to be in line with the head but in order to get the marks to line up I would have to hold the exhaust gear while it is compressing the spring. Obviously this is not how its supposed to work since I can't do the timing belt while holding the cam gear the whole time. Both adjustments are set to 0 and the dowel pins are up. I really don't want to mess up my timing and ruin a $8,000 engine.
I told this to Fidanza and they want me to send the gears back for an inspection but the gears are already installed on my cams with red loctite and I'm so close to getting this car running I really don't want to bother. I'm hoping someone here knows more than the people at fidanza and can just help me so I don't have to bother taking them off, shipping them and waiting for them to do whatever it is that they need to do.
Anyone have any ideas or have had this problem before? Thanks.
I told this to Fidanza and they want me to send the gears back for an inspection but the gears are already installed on my cams with red loctite and I'm so close to getting this car running I really don't want to bother. I'm hoping someone here knows more than the people at fidanza and can just help me so I don't have to bother taking them off, shipping them and waiting for them to do whatever it is that they need to do.
Anyone have any ideas or have had this problem before? Thanks.
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