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Re: lucky or what
« Reply #15 on: 24 December 2009, 10:54:24 »
It all depends on which direction the timing was out.
Exhaust cam.... so it can be advanced wrt the crank for quite a long way before problems occur but can only be retarded (late) by 2 teeth (ish) before the valves fail to get out of the way of the ascending piston.
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Re: lucky or what
« Reply #16 on: 25 December 2009, 16:04:26 »
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It all depends on which direction the timing was out.
Exhaust cam.... so it can be advanced wrt the crank for quite a long way before problems occur but can only be retarded (late) by 2 teeth (ish) before the valves fail to get out of the way of the ascending piston.
& it was.  :P
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