Hi chuck,
You may have hit upon the very problem. There isn't a lip on the front of
the crank gear, but there is one on the rear of the cam gear. It's hard to
say how much room there is between the cover and the belt since it's not
installed, but probably between and 1/8 to 1/4 inch. Maybe a shim is
required on the cam gear too.
Any suggestions?
Gerard
At 8:55 PM -0500 1/11/02, Charles F. Christ wrote:
>gerard,
>
>
>it appears as the crank pulley is designed to be the "guide " for forward
>motion and the cam pulley is designed for the guide for rearward movement.
>has the belt stretched already allowing it to walk around freely? upon
>assembly how close is the cover to the cam pulley? i'm curious as to how
>far the belt must walk out on the pulley in order to make contact with the
>cover. another curiosity would be is there any runout on the cam pulley
>wich may be initiating the belt's walking out ?
>on our morgan 4+4 1500cc we use a similar set up to drive the water pump off
>the crank. no idler pulley to tension the set up . the crank pulley has a
>"guide" or lip on both sides of the pulley. the water pump pulley has no
>"guides " or lips front or rear. it has never thrown a belt. and as long
>as the 2 pulleys are paralell to each other there would be no tendancies to
>try to walk the belt in or out. if the pulleys are not paralell to each
>other the belt would try to walk without an edge on the pulley to guide the
>belt.
>
>chuck.
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