I have an early '98 12-valve with the 215 pump. A bud and I tried to set the timing on mine today. We have the Snap-On timing kit and successfully re-timed his auto (180 pump) last week. His is holding great but mine will not hold. The gear keeps slipping. We've used the same procedure in both cases: set the desired lift, pulled the gear, reset TDC, then hose the crap out of the shaft and gear area with brake cleaner and torque down the nut. However, the gear keeps slipping on mine. We even torqued it to 170 ft-lbs. But we can get it to slip just flicking the throttle as it idles in the garage.
What is the secret to getting the gear to stay put? I need some input from someone who has done this multiple times with success. I don't even want to talk about pulling the pump
The only things we haven't tried is blowing out the area with compressed air before and after using the brake cleaner and using any sort of Loctite. I've search the forums and saw a few ideas, but nothing definite from any one with a lot of experience that I could find.
We've given up for the night. A call will go out to Piers in the morning. We'll give it another go tomorrow evening.
BTW: this same post will be put in the Truck-911 forum.
Thanks in advance. Happy New Year!
-Jay
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