90 Q45 New Owner & Them ## Chains

[John Nordling]

Bought a two owner 90 Q45t with 91K on it and then I found out about NICO from a friend driving a 95 Q45. What a wealth of information! You are collectively a great help to the novice Q owner.

First thing I learned is that I don't drive it until the chain guides are done. I did have it checked out by the local Seattle area dealer, but I am convinced they only hooked it up for an electronic diagnostic ($213) and never said a word about guides.

I got lucky because the service manual came with the car. I have downloaded lots of information about the chain guides already, and have started the work outlined by that guru, DAEDALUS. Now I find I am stuck on the small details. I am trying to set the drive pulley to TDC, but without a normal distributor I don't have an easy way to know when number one piston is on the compression stroke.

Feeling really stupid right now, but I sure don't want to foul this up.:help

[DAEDALUS]

Welcome! Who referred you?

Time to start wearing out that manual, especially the first half of the EM section if you're doing the guides. You need to remove the crank-angle sensor cover (3 screws) and take a look at the face of the notched wheel behind it. There's a groove in the face. It needs to point to the left when you line up the mark on the pulley with the cover. (Page EM-17 in my manual).

[John Nordling]

Thank you, Daedalus. I saw the diagram in the manual, but didn't recognize the significance of it. I'll really have to read the material more carefully. Just pulled the cover off and I am at TDC. Next step - I'm off to buy a chain wrench tomorrow!

Oh, NICO was referred to me by Paul Hecker, a fellow instructor at my school. I don't think Paul has registered, but I'll check on Monday.

Can't wait to get this job done, since I also have a bad #3 injector. Won't be on the road until after that.............John