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Once I get it oiling the top end I will worry about taking off the timing cover.

Wow, sorry about the divorce.

...of continuing with the original plan of running the 451. Going to order the solid roller lifters, AR engineering timing cover, timing chain and oil pan soon. Need to to finish putting the engine together. Embarrassed to say how long ago I started on that engine or the car for that matter...

...what that means. The metering rods are tiny diameter. I am not sure if they are adjustable. There is ways to check the slack in your timing chain. One would involve pulling the valve cover. The other is popping off the distributor cap. Putting a breaker bar on the crank bolt. Checking for...

Over the weekend I drained and removed the radiator and hoses, removed the fan, water pump, fuel pump, pulleys, harmonic balancer, timing cover and the chain itself. The old chain had not as much play as I thought or as the distributor rotor indicated. I wanted to make sure those plugs...

...so I should probably just get the Edelbrock chain. Thanks for the tip for the Enginetech hardware kit. Obviously it's not great that the timing chain is bad, but it sounds like it might have been the culprit for the engine idling kinda rough and pinging etc, so I'm glad I checked. After...

You need to have a look at your timing chain before going too much further. Before you know how to adjust them, or what the correct length pushrod is, you need to know what type of cam is in it, hydraulic or solid. Then you measure for pushrod length with an adjustable pushrod and adjust the...

That was my thought as I was tightening the balancer up as it got closer, but I think it should be good as is. I have rotated it and the balancer is pretty true and does not get any closer

Came to post about the valve to piston concerns. Drilling a hole? Brilliant. Done. Thank you!

Well, you made a decision at least. In my mind how long will it be before that 5/16 is 1/2 or more? Probably not long. Good luck!

Yeah I 100% agree with you unfortunately this timing chain set came with an engine rebuild kit off of eBay the Pistons and bearings and everything already installed so I'm not going to take all that apart to send everything back so I'm kind of screwed that way.

I measured it (not by degrees). With a straight-edge against the sprockets I can push the middle of the chain 0.318 inches (yes - it was 318 I swear!). That's 5/16 inch (5.1 / 16 to be exact). So it's not the 1/2 inch that's supposed to be the rule of thumb for replacement. There's a lot of...

You got that right, not to mention the sprockets being machined poorly with the keyways in the wrong places. Add that to the cheap chain stretching and you can really stack the lack of tolerances up! I've seen a timing set come up almost 12 degrees retarded on a big block Chevy and that was with...

I thought it was 5 degrees, but regardless....Something like this? Link to a video I sent to Bazza of his 318's TC: Jim

...cover with a nylon mallet while looking for a pressure drop and saw nothing. Wondering if it's leaking out of timing cover into the timing chain area, leaking under the intake, or a head gasket. I'm going to try pressurizing and hand rolling the engine over to see if I get anything out of...

Cloyes may have had one of the original "true roller" timing chains in part # 9-3103 for Mopar small blocks. I've used them almost exclusively for decades & I believe they were sold under the Direct Connection/Mopar Performance label as well. I believe they have discontinued the old number and...

While the water pump and timing chain cover have nothing to do with the engine balance they have everything to do with the year of the car and which side of the harmonic balancer the timing mark is on and for the side that the bottom radiator hose hooks up. As I said earlier I'd check the...

Your Disturber housing seems to be correct, so I would say the drive gear is set in wrong. Move your cap wires two notches CW and that should give you your #1 firing position. if everything else is correct. Timing gear and chain is in the right position?

Intake and new oil pump/ pickup. Timing Chain and cover Water pump Fuel pump

...moog, BF Goodrich, timkin, etc etc that were once associated with quality are now compromised and produced off shore in the name of profit. If your timing chain had 100,000 miles on it ok yeah change it out but not with minimal slack and 10,000 miles. Again just my thoughts, others may...

20 hours, that is so sad.

I saw a sbc wear a hole in the timing cover. And an oem mopar or 3 with all the plastic gone off the top sprocket.

...the timing gear. Either the teeth had worn down or the chain had stretched over time. I don’t know which was the case. Either way, the timing chain had developed enough slack that when the starter was engaged the slack was pulled out of one side and added entirely to the other. This caused a...

There's nothing "normal" about a noisy timing chain, so lets just bust that myth right now. Normal? No. Common? Very possibly. 142K maybe?

Did you check the timing chain for slack?

Yep

Call Ken at Oregon Cams and tell him exactly what you're looking for. He will steer you right.

The intake leak is in the front over the timing chain cover. Where the silicone or what was used is leaking.

When I drove it home it still ran good I just had to let the clutch out in gear to start it it was getting hot so I would get up on speed turn it off then let the clutch out again until I got home

...but at some point I retarded the timing a bit because of pinging under load and the gas mileage went down again. I'm gonna have to check timing chain, maybe consider a colder plug (currently Champion 405) and richer jets?! I'm also planning on getting that FBO limiter plate and springs for...