Yeah, so what... as everyone knows,,, skipped time is caused by anyone of a number of failures associated with timing belt/timing gear/belt tension/idler/etc... ... not how much klick/klack went on in days gone by!!!!!!!!THE 20.000 MILES ON THE BAD GEAR IN THE ENGINE HAD PISTON TO VALVE CONTACT THE HOLE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Second he tells us
he tells us he found a bad crank gear but the crank was OK..NOTE:..KILNCOLN "the master mechanic who knows all" TELLS US, "The CRANK WAS OK".... this is important infowhen we put his new pump on we found the crank gear to be bad the crank was o.k nothing wrong with it.
Third he tells us
and here finally he tells us he has the "Old crank gear" which implies to me he put a new crank gear on the above mentioned OK crank......when he picked up his car he seen his gear and left it hear so it's mine now.
So I have only one question for Klincoln, actually several, but I'm gonna go for one long one.....
If a new timing gear was put on an OK crank (and I just have to assume everything was torqued/locktited/strectch bolted/etc) how is not your fault if that crank gear got wobble??????
Cause if the crank was sat, and you installed the new gear and it went wobble in 800 miles, just whose fault is that????????????
I'm sure all of us would love to hear Klincoln confirm or deny in short concise sentences....
Was crank SAT????
Did he replace crank pulley???
Course I'll add that a lot of the above abuse assumes crank pulley wobble was cause of problem..... but while I'm being long winded I'll now add, just about any failure in timing train that I can think of other than; reused timing belt that broke, reused idler that seized up, cam shaft seized up, maybe cam gear slippage or (feel free to chime here in guys) would be the shops fault.....
regards Richard