16V 2.0 Pickup lives, sort of... Need help ASAP..

[brianm at earendel.org (Brian McGarvey)]

Jim,
This assumes that the kent gears have the key in the same location as the 
original ones relative to the lobes

the quick way to check, well there is no quick way.
remove the Intake manifold
remove sparkplugs (makes it easy to turn)

move the motor to TDC as marked by the DOT on the flywheel.
and line up the tick on the 16v cam gear with the arrow on the valve cover

remove valve cover.
look at the cam gears. 
there should be a dot and a dash lined up when looking from the drivers
side. The dot and dash may vary, but they should both be on the same side 
of the gears facing the passenger side.
http://cyco.ataxxia.com/gallery/CamsIn/P0000618
here is a picture of ours as installed (realize that these are regrinds, 
and an exhaust cam that is converted to an intake and reground)

there could be issues with getting the wrong gear on the wrong cam
getting the gear flipped on either.

oh and both valves should be completely closed on the #1 clyn. the overlap 
comes on another portion of the stroke.

take a picture or many.

Brian



On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Jim Jarrett wrote:

> On 4/18/04 11:58 AM, "Jeff Toomasson" <area53@validpath.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Couple things to check (which you may already have):
> > 
> > 1) Ensure your TDC is true and not for #4
> 
> How do you tell this for certain???
> 
> 
> 
> I think I have inter-cam timing issues on my 16v.....I was just searching
> the list archives, 'cuz I thougth someone else described this same problem.
> 
> Anyone know how to absolutely check this?
> 
> 
> Background:  A couple years ago I replaced my cams with Kent 258's.  I had
> to h ave the gears pressed off a stock set of cams and pressed onto the
> Kents.  I can't remember for sure, but I think they are keyed, so the gears
> couldn't be on wrong.
> 
> Yet, to get any decent performance out of my car, I had to slip the timing
> belt a whole tooth + a few degrees on the adjustable cam gear.  So, this
> leads us to believe the inter-cam timing is whack.
> 
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