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Re: The guide is flexible enough to be pryed off the pin. Posted by Ari [Email] (#2847) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Ari) on Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:23:55 In Reply to: The guide is flexible enough to be pryed off the pin., SWEDECAR [Profile/Gallery] , Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:38:27 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Last November, our Saab club had a technical meeting at the Saab training center, and we played with timing chains. A friend and I practiced replacing the timing and balance chains on a 2.3, nicely sitting on a stand in the middle of a clean teaching center, under the guidance of John Moss. We were trying to find a way to do it with the head in place, and we ran into that same problem. John indicated that's why you need to pull the head. If Saab had only made the pin thread into the block, it would be cake. It didn't seem to me that the guide would flex at all, and these were zero-mileage engines.
However, I wasn't about to try and force anything, as I didn't own the engine and wasn't about to break Saab property. I'll say that I'm surprised that the new guide would be flexible enough to fit over the pin without bunging it up. BUT, if Anders has done this successfully, then heck, I'm all for it. This is a job that I'll face one day, and I'd love to leave the head in place. So just for clarification, we are talking about an OEM guide, and that you can find a way to get it in? That you've done this? Sorry for asking, but my buddy and I couldn't find a way, and John knows all the tricks.
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