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| Posted: 10:04pm 14 Feb 2023 |
@ phil99 - It kinda is. The dizzy drive shaft gear thing, has a helical gear that engages with another gear on the camshaft. Behind that on the same shaft, it fits into a hole in the engine block that holds the gear in the correct position. Back outside the engine, there is a retainer thing that holds the dizzy drive in place, so it can't thrust forward and come out, but once you remove that, without screwing a bolt into the dizzy drive, it can just drop down into the gearbox if you lose your grip on it, which is what happened.
It's a schoolboy(or girl if you like) mistake, and not something anyone who works on these engines should ever allow themselves to do - cos you use the bolt to stop that happening, till you have it seated correctly....@ CaptainBoing - Well, there is that I guess. We'll probably check the crank and big-end bearings while we're at it. Knowing our luck, they will all be due for replacement.
@ SimpleSafeName - They are small, but still too heavy to lift out by hand.
You can't get into the bottom-end, without removing the gearbox that is basically the sump in these power units. To seperate the gearbox/sump from the engine, you have to take the whole assembly out of the car. Oh well - something to keep us busy at weekends for a while I guess...I might post photos if anyone is interested.