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V · 05-21-2006, 01:55 PM

yeah im leaning toward the fact that it has the wrong timign cover on the motor. When i first got the car I assumed it was all original mileage, at 186k, but after i pulled the valve covers and saw the condition of the top of the heads, i am almost convinced the motor has been rebuilt, mainly because there is NO sludge deposits anywhere around the rocker arm or on top of the heads. Its very clean up there and ive pulled apart motors with 100k miles with tons of gunk built up.

another thing im gonna chekc is if there is a scratch or old paint line, further around on the balancer. basically ill put the grooved timign mark at around 2 o'clock and see if theres any type of marking then at the 12 oclock position, maybe they used the wrong balancer but remarked it.

05-21-2006, 01:55 PM	#4
V Stalker Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 12,080 iTrader: (12)	yeah im leaning toward the fact that it has the wrong timign cover on the motor. When i first got the car I assumed it was all original mileage, at 186k, but after i pulled the valve covers and saw the condition of the top of the heads, i am almost convinced the motor has been rebuilt, mainly because there is NO sludge deposits anywhere around the rocker arm or on top of the heads. Its very clean up there and ive pulled apart motors with 100k miles with tons of gunk built up. another thing im gonna chekc is if there is a scratch or old paint line, further around on the balancer. basically ill put the grooved timign mark at around 2 o'clock and see if theres any type of marking then at the 12 oclock position, maybe they used the wrong balancer but remarked it.