pearl95sc
Registered User
FOr some reason, I have the worst luck somedays. I spent a 7 & an 8 hour run putting the engine, tranny, new fuel pump, and differential in, all hoping to have my car running last night. But of course, that wasn't going to happen. I had just finished putting the balancer on, and we started to go through the sequence of torquing down the rocker arms. As I'm turning the crank over, I notice the rockers not moving anymore. I pull off the balancer and front cover, and wollah, a broken timing chain. WTF caused this POS chain to break. My only guess was maybe because I got bigger stronger valvesprings, the chain was under more stress to move the cam. Anyways, the rockers were torqued at 10ft.lbs , and we had started to adjust them to 20, and were going to use 25ft.lbs. as final. It was a stock chain, but had less than 30k on it. Anyone ever have this sort of problem before? I figure that its better it happened now, than later when blower and all were back on. Any thoughts on this are appreciated. I guess I will be ordering a double roller from morana. Another day, another dollar, and in my case, about another 160 worth of them.