You can if you want too, It will go right on there.
Dot goes to dot. Bottom gear dot stright up at 12:00 oclock. Top gear dot stright down at 6:00 oclock.
a noisy second gear in your transmission is that your second gear might have broken gear tooth which is mostly the problem with my cars.either the second gear on the counter gear or the second gear itself.
The cam gear and the crankshaft gear both have a dot on them align those two dots as you are installing the chain and gear set...the two dots should be facing one another this will be tdc there is no adjustment of the distributor for a vortec engine so this alignment is critical.
No it is a gear to gear timing system.
There's NO WAY the timing chain and gears are bad in a 2003 model truck. I don't know what kind of problem that you are having, But I rest asure you it's not the chain and gears. Need more info about your problem.
Input shaft bearing is probably bad, especially if it is noisy in every gear but 4th
some of these bad boys have a magnet in the timing cam gear must remove timing cover on these models
The belt is made or rubber and drives the cam. A gear is just that, a gear which is a metal or plastic part with teeth on it that meshes with a belt or another gear.
This engine does not have a timing belt, it is gear-driven. Possibly, you have broken gear teeth, causing the timing to be out of order.
It has a timing chain.
these are very noisy they take a lot of space for transmitting power
Positive, No chain or belt to break. Negative, Noisy.