You don't say, but I assume you're talking about a 9A 2.0l 16V? If
so, it sounds like you may have
the intake to exhaust cam index screwed up. Moving the timing belt
up and back a tooth wouldn't
help that scenario. To check, pull the valve cover (I know that's
a
pain because the intake has to go)
set the motor to TDC. Now look at the cam sprockets at the
distributor end. There should be a dimple
or hash mark on each gear, with the one on the intake at 9:00, or
at
the level of the valve cover mating
surface, and the exhaust mark at 3:00 or at the same level as the
intake mark. There's a possibility that
the TT intake cam doesn't have the mark, in which case you either
have to match it up with a factory
intake and scribe a mark, or do the truly correct thing and get
yourself a degree wheel and set the cams
up the way all good engine builders do. Oh, almost forgot to
mention, to correct the index if the marks
don't line up, you have to pull the cam retaining caps so you can
move the cam chain up or back on the
gears until everything lines up correctly. It can bee a real pain
in
the ass, because you may think everything
is lined up right, but when you tighten the caps down, the marks
will
have moved out of alignment. You kind
of have to interpolate where you need to put the chain on the gears
in order for things to come out right once
everything is tightened down. Been there, done that.
On Oct 22, 2006, at 3:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
The junkyard 2.0 w/new headgasket, TT Euro intake cam and a new
distributor and O2 sensor can rev (slowly) to 5k+, idles like
factory new and I can barely back out of my slightly uphill
driveway. What power it has comes on after 3k and under any load
it
justs pops and does nothing.
Changed out anything I could think of, coolant temp sensor,
plugs,
wires, injectors, ignition module, kock module. No vacuum leaks.
The only things I don't have 2 of are DPR, knock sensor and the O
sensor module. I did every test except the DPR since O don't have
that harness and am reluctant to hack the one on the car. Dropped
the timing belt back a tooth, then forward once now I back to 0.
Also the tachometer seems to show higher revs than what the
engine
sounds like. @ 3k the 1.8 made some noise the 2.0 is almost idle
quiet (like around 1.7krpm).
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Steve
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