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HotCobra, on what do you base that conclusion that the pulley was not seated properly?
I am still not 100% sold on this as the solution though. Maybe the timing wheel was cocked on the snout and that tooth fell outside of a solid pickup signal IDK.
thread is long..on page 3 his pic of back of pulley...silicone is mostly on keyway half and cleaner on the other half...which would fall into your thought of trigger wheel cocked...
on pg 3 pic of timing chain gear and chains...i see 2 chain links with a shine appearance..could be from camera glare...wmburns suggest plastic guides might be worn????????????
Based on everything learned so far, to me the best theory so far is the crank damper not fully seated.
well known that an incorrectly torqued crank damper bolt can cause an unstable CKP signal.
[*]Reuse of a TTY bolt. Likely resulted in not enough clamping load needed to fully seat the damper.
I'm personally have a hard time believing that the silcone is responsible for the problems. However, I do recommend to use more silcone on the OUTSIDE between the washer, damper, and crank. Excess silcone will not hurt anything here.]
if this was his problem...
i feel the problem was
1-intallation of pulley...this was first thing touched/changed....
2-from all the pics i looked for what you shouldnt have seen?
3-first step when installing..must be clean and free of nicks and burrs..
im not an engine builder...hope reuse of bolt isnt a big deal,,i didnt
than wmburns your very last sentance...what would Excess Silicone hurt anything here ????
Consider getting a valve cover gasket set from your local autoparts store. The Felpro set includes all gaskets and a FULL set of grommet plugs. IMO, this is a better deal because this gives NEW valve cover gaskets.I lost, somehow, one of my valve cover grommet plugs and will have to pick up another one from Ford tomorrow before I can start the engine and see if my repairs were successful.