So finally broadcasting my problems of late
I had been having problems with timing and carby in the last month, got the carby sorted (i hope) but the distributor seemed to be the prob with the timing.
It all came to a holt the other weekend when it refused to start after making a weird sound, whilst down at the servo. (luckily zukchik's ute came to the rescue haha)
After pulling it to pieces the rotor button wasn't turning while cranking. The distributor cog had a big chunk out of one of the teeth. The shaft movement of the distributor was about 8-10mm so i figured that it must of jumped a cog taken a chunk out of the tooth and then sat in that position and not been connecting with the cog on the camshaft causing it not to start.
Easy... get another distributor... got a good s/h one, checked over the cog on the camshaft...looked fine no marks or anything...beauty.
Put the new distributor in, roughly set timing, start it up..makes a weird grinding noise, turn off, pull distributor out and a tooth has a chunk out of it on the new distributor.
Check camshaft cog again, is perfectly fine
So I am unsure of where the problem lies here, doesnt seem to be obvious camshaft movement, new distributor doesnt have movement, housing looks alright.
Really hoping it isn't a bent camshaft, any ideas/thoughts/suggestions?
just was a timing adjustment issue on the no start!