cant go over 10 degrees timing

[underground_army]

so i was setting the timing on my car and the timing was at 0 degrees yeah i know odd so i was trying to set it back to 15 but the max it goes is 10 and i can even lower idle for that as well what should i do. did my chain jump a tooth or what could it be plz little help

[carkook]

Set the Crank to TDC(red mark on crank pully aligned with pin and your cam should look like this with that little mark at the 12 o clock position. If not then it jumped a tooth.

[underground_army]

so do i only have to take off the valve cover or what else do i have to take off to do this i have all the tools but im new to this

[carkook]

Yeah just take off the valve cover, youll be able to see exactly whats in that picture. But if you you did skip a tooth to fix it youll have to remove the timing chain cover. I would get someone who knows a little bit to help you out.

[underground_army]

how hard is it to take of the cover 1-5 cause i have the nissan manual. does that mean if it did jump a tooth i have to do the whole removing the powersteering and all that stuff

[carkook]

Removing the valve cover is a 1. Yeah if you did jump a tooth you will have to remove everything on the front of the engine. I removed the radiator also just to be safe. Thats why if you did jump a tooth I would get a friend that can help.