07-27-2021, 12:06 AM
Saturday I was on my way to a golf outing I organized for my hockey league and was about 2 miles from the course doing maybe 85 or so and heard a small “pop” from the motor. Lost all power and was barely able to make it off the exit and pull off into the gravel. Tried to restart it and it seemed like the battery was very weak, like there wasn’t enough power to turn the motor over. Luckily a buddy that was going to the golf outing happened to come by and stopped. I hooked up cables and thought maybe it just needed a jump. Same thing. Hardly turned over and no start. So I stopped immediately trying and thought maybe I jumped timing a tooth or 2 and didn’t want to mess anything else up. Had it towed to a garage I trust to work on it. That was Saturday. Of course it was killing me so I went yesterday and played with it since they couldn’t get to it til Tuesday.
I turned the crank to TDC and then looked where the distributor cap was pointing…not to #1 at all. I’m praying it didn’t destroy anything in the heads or pistons. The motor was rebuilt about 5k miles ago and has been very strong.
Does this sound like it just jumped timing a bit? I plan on doing a new timing chain at a minimum at this point if that’s the case. It has a stock points distributor and i had planned on doing an electronic ignition soon and this maybe just sped up that purchase too.
I turned the crank to TDC and then looked where the distributor cap was pointing…not to #1 at all. I’m praying it didn’t destroy anything in the heads or pistons. The motor was rebuilt about 5k miles ago and has been very strong.
Does this sound like it just jumped timing a bit? I plan on doing a new timing chain at a minimum at this point if that’s the case. It has a stock points distributor and i had planned on doing an electronic ignition soon and this maybe just sped up that purchase too.