---- you wrote:
> Can anyone confirm if there is in fact a plug at the 11:00 position where a
> 'gear' equipped engine would have this hex shaped nozzle? Is there a hole in
> the engine mounting plate around it?
The oil nozzle goes through the plate on the CJ engines. I have not worked on a MB engine.
> Did they use the same cam and reverse the rotation of the engine and firing
> order? I assume NOT!
They used two different cams and two different pumps, they are not interchangeable. The cams run two different directions.
> I seem to recall that the oil pump bore in the block was slightly larger on
> MB so the MB pump couldn't mistakenly be inserted in the wrong block?
The gears on the pumps are reversed from the MB to the CJ engines.
> The chain and sprocket was MB and CJ2A thru Serial number CJ-2A 44417 (engine
> number) motors after this started with a "J" prefix
>
> The much later manuals state that a new timing gear oil jet entered
> production with engine serial number 3J-166871 The earlier jet has a .070
> diameter aperature, the later has .040 inch. It goes on to tell you if ther
> is evidence on older engines of oil starvation to #1 rod, retro fit the
> smallet jet.
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