Okay, just typing this up so that I can let it off of my chest a bit and let everyone know the type of weekend I had. First I work 6 days a week so from Saturday afternoon (around 3pm) and Sunday is my free time. So, I figured this weekend would finally be the weekend that I take the time to put in my cams, cam gears, UDP, and tune. Also, since I live in an apartment and since I would like help during this I brought it over to a friends house, who has a garage, and worked on it there.
After taking off the old cams and cam gears, and also putting the new ones in, we squeezed the timing belt over the new cam gears. Everything up to here went pretty damn smooth, no big problems, nothing broke, it was going good. Well once the timing belt was off my friend, along with myself, was pumped and he said that he would tap the ignition a few time to tighten up the belt. Oh [
][][][][][]* , the TDC tool wasn't removed. So......several upon several hours later....after removing the oil pan...and after bending the now bummerange shaped TDC tool into a smaller S or squiggly shaped TDC tool we are finally able to remove it from the block.
Now after about 1.5 hours of changing out the old cams and cam gears and about 6 hours trying to fix this big F-up we finally are back to where we should be. So now, tired and frustrated, we finish checking everything and toss on the UDP and put on the new sized serpentine belt. Again he, and myself, was exited about starting it up again to see how it starts up. So........click..click....thud......Oh [][][][][][]* all we did was toss on the UDP the FN bolt either wasn't tightened up or it wasn't on at all I don't really know all I know is that a $170 UDP is on the floor about 3 or 4 feet away from my car. So.....now around 1am in the morning (I have been up since around 6am the previous morning) I put on the original crank pulley and original serpentine belt back on the car, oh and the bolt also this time, and get ready to start the car again.
So now between 1:15 and 1:30 am we start the car for the third time. Well...it ran like crap. It wouldn't even start up without running the throttle a bit so we start messing with the timing and finally we get it to where we can start the car (still having to play with the throttle but not nearly as much (It sounded like an old hotrod gurgling through the exhaust at idle almost like it wanted to die until the throttle is played with). After this it is now around 2:30am and we have to call it a night.
So now it is about 11 am we have been awake for a couple hours ate breakfast and ready to get the SOB running properly or at the very least better than where it was. So after a lot of playing with the cam gear settings and several hours later it is running pretty normal. The car bogs a little bit at idle but nothing like the night before and with the tune in the car runs alright. I know that my timing is jumped due to how it runs at idle and how since it isn't running as strong as it should with my foot on the peddle. So some time this week or this weekend I will have it apart again to get the timing corrected so that it runs how it should.
If there is anything any of you would like to worn me about with timing, since I will be doing it again some time this week or if you have any idea where I can get a nice underdrive crank pulley for a decent price, since I am currently atleast $170 in the hole for the pulley alone, plus the oil pan gasket, plus the misc stuff I had to by due to the countless F-ups. Well thats about it. Let me know if you have any questions or if you just wanna laugh at me, that'll be cool to.
After taking off the old cams and cam gears, and also putting the new ones in, we squeezed the timing belt over the new cam gears. Everything up to here went pretty damn smooth, no big problems, nothing broke, it was going good. Well once the timing belt was off my friend, along with myself, was pumped and he said that he would tap the ignition a few time to tighten up the belt. Oh [
][][][][][]* , the TDC tool wasn't removed. So......several upon several hours later....after removing the oil pan...and after bending the now bummerange shaped TDC tool into a smaller S or squiggly shaped TDC tool we are finally able to remove it from the block.Now after about 1.5 hours of changing out the old cams and cam gears and about 6 hours trying to fix this big F-up we finally are back to where we should be. So now, tired and frustrated, we finish checking everything and toss on the UDP and put on the new sized serpentine belt. Again he, and myself, was exited about starting it up again to see how it starts up. So........click..click....thud......Oh [
][][][][][]* all we did was toss on the UDP the FN bolt either wasn't tightened up or it wasn't on at all I don't really know all I know is that a $170 UDP is on the floor about 3 or 4 feet away from my car. So.....now around 1am in the morning (I have been up since around 6am the previous morning) I put on the original crank pulley and original serpentine belt back on the car, oh and the bolt also this time, and get ready to start the car again.So now between 1:15 and 1:30 am we start the car for the third time. Well...it ran like crap. It wouldn't even start up without running the throttle a bit so we start messing with the timing and finally we get it to where we can start the car (still having to play with the throttle but not nearly as much (It sounded like an old hotrod gurgling through the exhaust at idle almost like it wanted to die until the throttle is played with). After this it is now around 2:30am and we have to call it a night.
So now it is about 11 am we have been awake for a couple hours ate breakfast and ready to get the SOB running properly or at the very least better than where it was. So after a lot of playing with the cam gear settings and several hours later it is running pretty normal. The car bogs a little bit at idle but nothing like the night before and with the tune in the car runs alright. I know that my timing is jumped due to how it runs at idle and how since it isn't running as strong as it should with my foot on the peddle. So some time this week or this weekend I will have it apart again to get the timing corrected so that it runs how it should.
If there is anything any of you would like to worn me about with timing, since I will be doing it again some time this week or if you have any idea where I can get a nice underdrive crank pulley for a decent price, since I am currently atleast $170 in the hole for the pulley alone, plus the oil pan gasket, plus the misc stuff I had to by due to the countless F-ups. Well thats about it. Let me know if you have any questions or if you just wanna laugh at me, that'll be cool to.
