Yea, also wondering if a tooth or 2 is enough to cause pistons to hit
valves.
BTW, I tried to call the guy right after I talked to you, no answer,
left him a message. Have not heard back from him yet. If I go after
it, will be next weekend.
Tom Savage wrote:
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Well little Tommy just got done looking at said car for me. Overall
nice shape. Said the valve cover is broken right above the chain,
cant remember if he said on drivers or passenger side. Said there is
a whole there and you can see that the chain is still intact and not
broken. So, what do you guys think this means? Valves probably OK but
front timing cover has to be pulled to replace the rails?
The hole is on the left/driver's side in front of the intake cam. The
chain is there but was loose. I connected the battery and turned it
over and it both turned fine and sounded fine. It even fired once or
twice, but the battery was so low that it could only muster a few
revolutions before slowing down. After this the chain was tight on the
sprocket.
I'm thinking it is a chain guide/tensioner problem. There must have
been a good bit of slack in the chain for it to come up and hit the
valve cover. Now wondering if it jumped time a tooth or two and how
much room for error there is between the valves and pistons.
Tom
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