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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: twistedthrottle on May 07, 2010, 02:52:08 PM
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I've had this 95 16v automatic tracker awhile. Ok story starts my wife drives the car. She told me that it is suffering from a power loss. Me being out of town had my local mech look at it. He did a full tune up. It ran a little better but not like it's suppose to. I had her take it back and he found thirteen degrees out of time. Adjusted it ran like new. Happened a week later same thing out of time and she had the timing checked 18 degrees out. Another week goes by the tracker from full power to dead in about a two mile strech. Took it in for timing belt found that it was the crank key on the timing gear. OUCH put a new crank in and now it won't start (it's real close though). (Was this a secondary problem with the tracker dieing on the final day). Timing is dead on. Built a adapter to check fuel presure it's good. 180#s of compression on all four cylinders. Nice consistant spark. I'm bout to spend a lot of money to have it diagnosed at an electrical shop. Just lookin for ideas. This thing hasn't ran in almost 2 years
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How are you checking the timing? If you put in a new crank, you had to remove the timing belt. It could be a tooth off in either direction and cause this type of starting issue. Also, the crank/cam timing on these is quite easy to get wrong due to the confusing marks on the cam and crank wheels. Try rotating your distributor all the way one direction ( retard ) then the other ( advance) and see if it wants to start easier. Did you just pull the Crank out through the oil pan or did you disassemble the whole engine?
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To be honest i'm not the one working on it. I haven't checked the timing myself. I know he had the valve cover off and should have been able to do double check it. The plugs seemed dry. But we couldn't get it to run off of a direct fuel spray through the intake. They pulled the motor. Then the cank from the oil pan. I was thinking that it died for another reason and I found the freak deal bout the crank key. I just don't know. I'll check back in with any leads.
After sitting here thinking about it i'm just going to double check everything. It has to be something simple.
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I would say the crank key was the problem all along.
I'd guess the timing is probably 180* out (just firing at the correct time on 2 cylinders...so that is probably why it "real close" to starting). Or it could be off a tooth, like BP said.