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Today I checked the timing on my Busso 3.0. The results looked pretty bad - interested to know what others think.
It's in a recently-acquired GTV that has not run for several years; the guy I bought it from was in the trade and mentioned his mechanic had changed the cambelt at some point. The belt itself looks to be in good condition, and has evidently not been "wandering" on the sprockets.
When I removed the cambelt cover I discovered red paint blobs on the cover and on one of the cam sprockets - that didn't exactly fill me with confidence that cam locks had been used previously.
From the pics below you can see that the inlet cam on the rear bank is timed about right; but the other three are out, with both cams on the front bank out by some margin.
So a couple of questions:
1) How badly would this have affected the engine's running?
2) I need some longer bolts for the cam locks. Can anyone confirm what size they are - they look like M8 standard pitch?
(I've tried the bolts I have for my Twin Spark cam locks but obviously they are a different size... )
Pics below show paint blobs on the inlet cam, rear bank; then the locks on both cams on the rear bank; then the inlet cam on the front bank; and finally the exhaust cam on the front bank.
It's in a recently-acquired GTV that has not run for several years; the guy I bought it from was in the trade and mentioned his mechanic had changed the cambelt at some point. The belt itself looks to be in good condition, and has evidently not been "wandering" on the sprockets.
When I removed the cambelt cover I discovered red paint blobs on the cover and on one of the cam sprockets - that didn't exactly fill me with confidence that cam locks had been used previously.
From the pics below you can see that the inlet cam on the rear bank is timed about right; but the other three are out, with both cams on the front bank out by some margin.
So a couple of questions:
1) How badly would this have affected the engine's running?
2) I need some longer bolts for the cam locks. Can anyone confirm what size they are - they look like M8 standard pitch?
(I've tried the bolts I have for my Twin Spark cam locks but obviously they are a different size... )
Pics below show paint blobs on the inlet cam, rear bank; then the locks on both cams on the rear bank; then the inlet cam on the front bank; and finally the exhaust cam on the front bank.
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