d9022

Well-Known Member

• Oct 2, 2013

• #1

had a loud clonking noise from the bottom end. removed sump and found a spun big end on no. 4. crank beyond repair. motor out, took off the timing gear cover expecting to see a chain and saw this.

What the hell is it.

 

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normandzie

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• Oct 2, 2013

• #2

diesel has timing gears not chain, petrol had timing chain

 

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• Oct 2, 2013

• #3

d9022 said:

had a loud clonking noise from the bottom end. removed sump and found a spun big end on no. 4. crank beyond repair. motor out, took off the timing gear cover expecting to see a chain and saw this.

What the hell is it.

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there was an aftermarket option of replacing the chain with gears iirc. zeus engineering . about 1k when they came out, don't think many people liked them tbh, they had issues.

normandzie said:

diesel has timing gears not chain, petrol had timing chain

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nope

 

Last edited: Oct 2, 2013

mrchurchill109

Active Member

• Oct 2, 2013

• #4

+1 on the Zeus conversion. They all had timing chains, but even at that there was little take-up on the conversion as it was very noisy and there were some quality issues with the gears IIRC (this was a good long while back, so memory fuzzy).

I'd hang onto them if you didn't find them objectionable you might want to refit.

ajr