2001 Dodge Dakota timing chain

Tiny
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Sir-

What you need to do here is put the engine no.1 piston on its compression stroke/TDC while cranking it in burst and feeling for compression-once you feel the compression stop look at the damper if not lined up set it at TDC/0 marking-Now look at the rotor it should be pointing to no.1 cap tower and also both valves on cyl. no.1 should be closed.

It takes 720 degs of crankshaft rotation to complete all the cylinders combustion process.

3.9L Engine


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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 AT 12:35 PM
Tiny
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Hi,
I could not get the timing marks to line up, however I had already done that and now ive already put it back together and have every set up correctly except for the timing marks. Now the only problem that I am having is that the timing is not correct even though everything else was set up correctly before I put the new gears on. Would there possibly be some other reason for this other than the possibility that this is caused due to the timing marks not lining up correctly?
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 AT 2:35 PM
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Is the vehicle running now?
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 AT 9:44 PM
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Yea it will run now, but it doesnt run well. It still doesnt catch immediately and then once it does crank when it warms up it starts to lobe and eventually stalls
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009 AT 1:41 AM
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Hello -

I am sorry to hear that....... There was some reason things were not lining up right. If it were me, I would take things back apart and reset it all.

I would remove the valve covers and make sure that I got the top of the engine to TDC.

Then I would remove the timing chain and both cam and crank gears and put the bottom of the engine on TDC.

If the distributor was not pointing to number one, I would remove it and inspect it really well, the bottom of the gears etc, replace the O-ring if it has one....... Then drop it back down (may take several times) to get it right on number one.
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009 AT 9:15 AM
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Hello -

I did really understand if you meant the car runs and then won't run at all or only for that few minutes then not at all.

I would mark things before you take them apart though for a starting point.
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