zamboxl

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hey guys if i change my timing chain would i have to put the car back in time??

zamboxl

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o come on anybody??

Sneakyws6

if you can keep from moving the crank or cam then no, but if you move them then yes you will have to make sure that everything is lined up before firing the car up for the first time.

zamboxl

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what would hapen if teh car fires back up out of time?? ???

zamboxl

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anybody??????

ttyson

piston/valve timing will be off. you will bend valves. you do not want to do that.

zamboxl

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nooooooooooooooooo god i hope my mechanic knows that. when i told him about the timing he said something like if i pulled the distrbutor off then yes he would need to do the timing but he was going to wait till he was finish with the rest of the work and fire her up to see if he had to do the timing. men if he meeses it up iam gona be pissed

ttyson

distributor?

what year car is this?

technical

Your mechanic is talking about ignition timing and you are talking about cam timing. Two different things. I also hope your mechanic knows what a distributor is.

What year/type car do you have? And what is your mechanic actually doing to it?

zamboxl

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the car is a 2000 t/a so what would i have to do to fix the cam timing and how much would that be? i just spoke with him and he told me that the car had no distributor so that makes more sence casued i never saw one on the car, specially since it's a fuel injected engine.

zamboxl

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well doesnt the cam and crank sensors automatically adjust things so that wont hapen.

technical

Cam and crank sensors only report the position(s) to the computer for injector and ignition timing respectively. The cam and crank need to be orientated correctly before you start the motor. Being fuel injected doesn't preclude you from having a distributor either, at least on older cars. Newer cars tend to have distributorless ignitions.

I would find it really hard to believe that your mechanic doesn't already know this.

zamboxl

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you right older f injected cars do have them but not the ls1 anyways yea he told me that as long as i aligned the chain back on correctly it would be fine, and i alingned it back up to the only pin a saw on there.