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[Pathogenic]

19 hours ago, Slartibartfast said:

Good work getting it back together. Sounds like the distributor is off a tooth. Or is that what you meant by moving the splines? Make sure you're setting it with the engine warmed up. Also check that the balancer hasn't slipped, as Adamzan noted above. Hopefully clearing up the timing wakes it up!

 

 

EC-23 of the '99 manual says that the knock sensor is not used to tune the engine. It's just to tell the computer if something goes wrong. I relo'd the sensor on mine to the back of the driver's side head. Haven't had any issues with it. I was glad I did it when the sensor failed and I didn't have to pull the intake to swap it out! But I imagine it would struggle to pick up the sound of knocking from the passenger's side, if something did go wrong.

Yeah I meant the teeth to the distributor. It hardly runs one tooth over and doesn't run on the other side, I've been following the FSM for setting it. The crank pulley is a new one, just has the marks on the wrong side. I made a new mark when I had the engine at TDC and have been adjusting it like that. Also realized I have upstream 02 sensor codes for no activity, so maybe that's causing the hesitation.

 

Glad to hear that the knock sensor doesn't affect timing, did not feel like taking it apart again anytime soon haha.

[Slartibartfast]

Weird. I wonder what the balancer was for, that had the marks 180 out. Assuming the mark you added is correct, and the timing belt is set up properly (you counted teeth rather than trusting the dimples on the back cover, right?), then I'm not sure why it would be fighting you like that.

 

No primary oxygen sensors isn't helping either! Probably running rich. Hopefully that's just a wiring fault.

[Pathogenic]

Yeah its weird, I even ordered another new balancer from Partsflow on amazon and that had the markings on the opposite side too!