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Originally Posted by Zener424
I drove the car to and from Hershey a few weeks ago, no problems. But I couldn't leave well enough alone, it was bothering me that I should have to have the adjustable thrust plunger, so I pursued it further. See the videos below:
The first one demonstrates a noise while cranking the engine manually with the valve cover off. The noise is significantly louder in the video than in person. The phone seemed to amplify it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty8R8IAzFus
The second video shows the backlash up front of a section of the gear just past TDC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmqjggeQwsU
The third video shows no significant backlash at another point in the gears rotation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpRcTs2Pc0k |
All the gears I got from Dan were spot on. Most likley some one ground the crank mains off the center line and that is making the crank gear run out. Seen this many times.