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Originally Posted by SVXDan
Looks like the passenger cam jumped one tooth. Two questions now, is that enough to cause the issues I'm seeing, and second is there any way to slacken up the belt enough to move it back into place without pulling the whole front half of the engine apart?
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The timing that I am referring to is that of the cam sprocket to the camshaft.
The only way to check it is to remove the cam sprocket and look at the machined groove in the camshaft.
The cam sprocket has 48 teeth.
That gives 7.5° per tooth at the camshaft.
Being one tooth off at the cam sprocket is not enough to cause what you are seeing.
However if there is 1/8" of play at the camshaft, that allows about 20° of retard, and THAT you would feel!
These numbers are approximations, but fairly close.