Drivers side Timing guide
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Interesting that you all say that the guides should be tight. When I took my engine apart, the guides have a small amount of play in them to allow for self adjustment. When pulling the bolts off that hold them on, you can see that the bolts are smooth so you cannot over tighten and not allow play. This was the same on my 85 truck, 85 Runner, and this 87 Runner. When I put the new guides on and tightened the bolts down, the guides still move a little. Hmmm...
As far as overtightening, there is a shank that stops the bolt from going so far in. However, overtightening could snap one of them puppies easily enough. That's a nightmare, if you're unprepared and inexperienced.
Furthermore, I have a friend with an '86 22r in his pick up who says he's never replaced the TC, either. Well over 100k miles on it. No noise. I've checked it myself. Who knows?
Last edited by thook; 12-23-2008 at 08:17 AM.
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If the crank and the cam are in the same position when you take the old timing sh_it off, then just match the bright colored timing links on the chain with the dots on the top and lower sprokets and put the guides, do you still need to time the motor? I mean i know the distributor will come out, but I could prolly mark that, I just dont want to have to do the TDC if I dont have to.
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What happens if you pull the cam sprocket and the timing mark is at the bottom? ... no way to easily line up the mark... yeah, I guess you could hang the crank sprocket and chain from the cam sprocket and rotate things around until they line up with the cam and crank keyways, drop it down through the head and hope the crank sprocket doesn't hang up or fall out, but if you take it apart with the mark on the cam sprocket at ~12:00, it's that much easier to put back together.
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Do it however you like, but if the crank and cam should move out of alignment even one tooth during installation.......for some reason.......how will you know? It's not like it's a difficult task to align everything at TDC on the compression stroke. It's actually a real nice safety measure considering what could happen.
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To clarify a little, being off one tooth isn't disastrous in terms of valve collision, but it will be impossible to set ignition timing. In which case, you will then have to take everything apart once again to correct it. Bummer that will be.
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I was thinking, for some odd dumb ass reason, that I could just put the timing links on the chain, on the timing marks on the sprokets in the position they were in once the old one came off, but the cam sproket and crank arent the same size so they wont be in sync. Dumb question on my part I should have thought about it a little more. I will just set the dots both at 12 o'clock on TDC and re time it. Better to be safe, than sorry.
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Interesting that you all say that the guides should be tight. When I took my engine apart, the guides have a small amount of play in them to allow for self adjustment. When pulling the bolts off that hold them on, you can see that the bolts are smooth so you cannot over tighten and not allow play. This was the same on my 85 truck, 85 Runner, and this 87 Runner. When I put the new guides on and tightened the bolts down, the guides still move a little. Hmmm...
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I was thinking, for some odd dumb ass reason, that I could just put the timing links on the chain, on the timing marks on the sprokets in the position they were in once the old one came off, but the cam sproket and crank arent the same size so they wont be in sync. Dumb question on my part I should have thought about it a little more. I will just set the dots both at 12 o'clock on TDC and re time it. Better to be safe, than sorry.
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Well, I'm not sure anymore . I know when I did the guides on my 91, they were tight- didn't float around at all. I noticed that the shoulder kept the bolts from going all the way in and breaking the plastic guide mount though.
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