Woops:






I recently replaced my crank sensor because I had a few timing sync errors. I was doing some tuning and noticed the car was making a clicking noise, but shrugged it off because my a/c compressor pulley bearing makes a little noise. Well after some part throttle tuning I returned home to resync my ignition timing. Just as soon as I adjusted the timing wizard a little and went back to check the timing light the engine turned off. I had no crank signal, so I knew something happened to my new crank sensor.

Well, I thought I better strip down the whole timing belt and check things out and its a good thing I did. I had assumed that I forgot to tighten the sensor bolts due to the damage I saw after pulling the crank pulley, but it looks like I mixed up 2 of the timing cover bolts with the correct sensor bolts and they were a little longer. They bottomed out before the sensor actually got tight and allowed the sensor to hit the trigger blade. The resulting debris then damaged the timing belt.

I'm really lucky the sensor got killed and shut the motor off. It wouldn't take too much more to have the timing belt fail IMO. I am also glad it wasn't me forgetting to tighten the bolts, because when I can't find a definite cause of a problem it makes the system seem unreliable. I'm also super lucky it died in the garage, could've been a tow involved. Ninja got a new trigger blade, rear roll pins, and spacer for me, now I need to wait on a timing belt to come in.

Be careful to use the correct bolts for the crank sensor. They are a #7 6mm by 16mm bolt with a lock washer.