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Old February 27th 18, 06:39 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
Scott Dorsey
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Default stretched timing belt?

> wrote:
>On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 10:12:36 PM UTC+8, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>
>> And when you did this, what did the timing look like with the light?
>>

>I don't have a timing light, or a workshop manual telling me what the
>relationship between the shafts should be.


Pick up a light! They are amazingly useful diagnostic tools, and people
forget how useful they are. Every flea market has a bunch of them that
they can't give away!

>> Nope, they can stretch too. But in this case, it might have slipped out
>> of phase.
>>

>
>I spoke to the service manager and he told me that the belt had jumped a
>tooth, which is enough to make the engine rat****.


They do that, yeah.
--scott
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