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hard to find miss


Silver97XL

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Vehicle Year
97
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Manual
I recently replaced a broken timing belt on a '97 2.3 liter 4banger, and it now has a small miss that I can't figure out. It "stumbles" when throttle is depressed, or coughs when you step on the gas, and then accelerates. Refering to the Haynes Repair Manual chapter 2 part A .15 "Pull the belt up ( pulling slack from between camshaft sprocket and the auxlilary shaft/oil pump sprocket and install it on the camshaft sprocket in a counterclockwise direction" Well. in going over and over this part of the project in my mind,. I think that I may have gone "clockwise" instead. Felt the camshaft sprocket move a tiny bit when I wraped the belt around it, then settle back. My question is; IF I did go the wrong direction, would the engine still run and if it runs, would doing as I described ( wrapping the wrong direction ) cause that stumble? The last code pulled read "left bank lean" Any idea what that means?
 
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pull the front cover and check your time belt marks and see if they all line up
 
It's was on the marks when we where done, turned over twice and fired right up. Something not quite right, idle is lower rpm than before Tbelt broke, has less power and seems to be useing more gas. I say seems because have'nt driven far enough to check actual milege.
 
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anyone read this?

Surely some one out there in cyber-land has came across this same sitution before, its just a tiny little miss, tiny but still not right. Any one got any ideas?
 

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