The Crusty Cuda: Whole lotta Shakin' (N96) Goin' on! - Page 25

**njsteve** · #1 03-24-2020, 02:57 AM

Mismatched distributor driven gear to cam drive gear?

Or a missing roll pin/woodruff key in the camshaft and the timing chain sprocket is rotating on the cam even though the bolt is tight?

**A12pilot** · #2 03-24-2020, 12:14 PM

What I’m leaning on, Steve, may be the pressed on gear/shaft connection on the oil pump intermediate shaft. I’m going to fire it up this morning with new plugs, timing reset, and see if it eventually does the stumble and fumble thing again. If it does, I’ll reposition the engine to 10 BTDC and check the position of the rotor to the #1 cap position. If it’s off, I’ll pull the shaft and see if the gear is slipping resulting in the timing wandering. Stay tuned.....

Cheers
Dave

**njsteve** · #3 03-24-2020, 12:28 PM

I have seen the woodruff keys sheer off on a cam/crank. Could have been a soft one and the cam sprocket is no longer fixed in time to the camshaft. The typical 50 cent part sabotaging a big dollar project.

**TimG** · #4 03-24-2020, 01:25 PM

Keep us posted, I wish I could contribute, but you guys are way above my pay grade.

32KZ · #5 03-24-2020, 01:48 PM

Just to throw in, pull your valve covers, keep eye on your valve timing: IE closed when supposed to?

Coughing fuel out the carb? I'd roll it by hand first, eyeball whats going on mechanically, check reference marks. Dont want valves starting to slap pistons.

**A12pilot** · #6 03-24-2020, 09:21 PM

Woohoo! Success!.....well, success in the fact that I knew anything I could come up with wouldn't be the right answer, so....woo....hoo...

It's all back together and here it'll sit. It's a real shame... such a pretty car with such an evil streak in her. Like a future ex-wife!

I'm out of ideas, patience, and interest. So time to just let it sit and move on to the other projects.

Thanks for all the suggestions and well wishes to get this poor girl running, but it ain't happening anytime soon.

Cheers

Dave