Ok, update: put back together, had to deal with timing a couple of times (tooth off) and it started to work as good as before. Drove to work and it died on the way home. Won't restart- won't even crank. So I'm thinking electrical issue. Alternator tested fine but maybe connection between alternator ...

you are like my dentist. drill baby drill. its a lot of hard unnecessary work. the problem was maby as simple the distributer was 180 degrees off and firing on the exhaust stroke. there is usually a correlation between work done and problem. so changing the timing belt would be loss of distributer ...

1986 240 Wagon. My son and his friend replaced the timing belt and seals. However, he didn't replace the spring on the tensioner and didn't realize there was a leak from the water pump. After driving for about 30 miles the timing belt slipped off. We've replaced the water pump, tensioner spring and ...