I’m replacing the head and timing gears (to steel gears) and made a stupid, rookie mistake. In my excitement I removed the fiber cam gear without marking the orientation between the two gears and their relation to the block. I do however have the motor at TDC #1.
When I realized my foolish mistake I quickly tried to put the fiber gear back on to get an accurate mark. Of course it gave me a little trouble and I’m not sure that things didn’t rotate slightly causing my mark to be one tooth off.
I now need help figuring out if I’m a tooth off. The crank gear has a small ‘0’ at the base of one tooth. The cam gear has a factory groove at the base of one tooth. At TDC the ‘0’ mark on the crank gear is pointing directly towards the center of the camshaft. Here’s the weird part: the ‘0’ on the cam gear is almost (off by one tooth) exactly 180 deg opposite the teeth that are meshing together between crank and cam gear.
So my question is: Should the ‘0’ mark on the cam gear be EXACTLY 180 across from the corresponding meshing gear on the crank gear that is marked with it’s ‘0’?
OR: how do I tell where my gears should be?
I could just KICK myself for this!!!! Arrrgggg. Please help.
Thanks,
Wayne