[928uk] 1979 cam belt... valves?

[adrian928 at tesco.net]

Normally on the early cars you get away with any valve damage, but some overseas ones may have different pistons - is it a German LHD or US originally?

Regards

> From: "mike-bev" <mike at dungeon99.freeserve.co.uk>
> Date: 2004/01/21 Wed AM 10:47:07 GMT
> To: <928uk at 928.org.uk>
> Subject: [928uk] 1979 cam belt... valves?
> 
> Hi All, I recently acquired, from my dad, a 1979 left hooker with a cam
> belt that had slipped. He took it to his mechanic who checked fuel pump,
> fuel injection etc and finally took the cam covers off to find the belt
> was really loose. My dad had the car for 6 years and to be honest wanted
> something with lower maintenance costs so gave it to me to try and fix.
> I have just put a belt on it, got it fired up and found that it
> mis-fires quite badly. Some months ago when he first had the problem
> Vince and John Holdsworth kindly got back to me to suggest that on early
> 928s there is a slim to no chance of trashing valves/pistons if the belt
> goes. Has any one had any experience with early cam belts going? Lastly
> I do want to check the firing order is still correct (the mechanic may
> have changed it?) I know the firing order is 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8 but can
> anyone tell me which cylinder is which? Any help on any subjects will be
> great.
> Thanks Mike Corrigan
>  
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