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| RE: More to the point, Joel... |
| By salid - 05/24/2002 8:24:45 PM; IP 208.186.86.93 |
| if your engine has the original nylon toothed timing set, CHANGE IT NOW. It is only a matter of time before it will come apart and make a nylon mess in your engine. A partially disintegrated gear will also add to the slack. Drain your oil into a screened receptacle and see if there are any little white nylon chards. If there are, they came from the gear. Of cource, I only know this from personal experience. A failed timing set is one of the most common reasons for dead FE engines in this area (relatively cold winters which nylon doesn't like). The death is usually preceded by a mysterious loss of oil presure as the little nylon chards plug the screen in the oil pickup. Then that funny clucking sound as one of the connecting rod bearings goes south and takes the crank with it. I'm not trying to scare you, but this is something I would give attention to anytime you start having strange timing issues on a "mature" FE. |
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