John Platt
New Member
Please see below pics of my bottom timing chain, as I’ve got really bad tinnitus i couldn’t hear any chain tinkering, honest!
The pic with my finger pushing the chain is nearly a 1/4” pasted the edge of hole. Mileage is 100k plus.
I’ve already got the intermediate chainwheel cluster nut loosened, as engine is on a stand.
I think the bottom chain is badly stretched, comments please?
Enough to consider replacing both chains?
The WM says in order to remove chainwheel cluster, you need to first remove the distributor & drive, before removing the oil pump & auxiliary drive assembly. However can I remove the oil pump & auxiliary drive together in one assembly c/w the dizzy still attached?
I had a really difficult time starting her up last year, resorting to a bulb & static timing set up to get the dizzy in roughly right place for initial start up, but then couldn’t really set the timing with a strobe, as timing was violently jumping all over the place, with rough tickover as well.
The pic with my finger pushing the chain is nearly a 1/4” pasted the edge of hole. Mileage is 100k plus.
I’ve already got the intermediate chainwheel cluster nut loosened, as engine is on a stand.
I think the bottom chain is badly stretched, comments please?
Enough to consider replacing both chains?
The WM says in order to remove chainwheel cluster, you need to first remove the distributor & drive, before removing the oil pump & auxiliary drive assembly. However can I remove the oil pump & auxiliary drive together in one assembly c/w the dizzy still attached?
I had a really difficult time starting her up last year, resorting to a bulb & static timing set up to get the dizzy in roughly right place for initial start up, but then couldn’t really set the timing with a strobe, as timing was violently jumping all over the place, with rough tickover as well.