omgosh

So I started changing my cam seals today, and came to a fork in the road...do I take the timing belt off? or leave it on and just remove the tension? or leave it on and don't touch the tension? I guess the DSMer in me led me down the path of most-half-assed-ness, so I didn't take the tension off. I've come to learn this is a bad idea on 95-96 cars, as the CAS is directly behind the intake cam gear, and apparently very fragile.

While I was manuevering the intake cam gear back into position, I (well my dad actually but I'm not going to blame him for trying to help) the CAS got in the way and some bits of plastic broke off. Now when I start the car, it immediately dies, regardless of throttle input.

I'm posting this because I'm not sure if its because I messed up the timing also, or just the CAS being borked is causing it not to run. I checked the timing at the cam gears, dowel pins up and marks aligned. I can't find the lower timing marks though. So I just pulled plug #1 and put a socket extension in there to see when its at TDC. At TDC the cam sprockets line up, so my timing is correct, right?

So does anyone have a 1g cas for me? I think the CAS swap sounds easier than removing the timing belt still...lol, thanks for any help.

Todd's90

I got one, it's an early style so let me know.

omgosh

Thanks todd, but I got a 90 cas off of DSM dave...thanks to you too btw. The swap was butter with the instructions off RREs site. The car seems to run alot smoother and idle better now with this sensor as well.

Now all I need to do is get a 6 shortblock...lol

Todd's90

Glad to hear it you got it all fixed up