Princess Blanca : The NA6

[Senor_Taylor]

I still can't stress enough that it's not a bandaid Lee, it's an accepted repair method. It's not shady, really. The JB just has to be strong enough to allow you to tighten the crank bolt 1x without the crank slipping out of time with the gear / and keeping the gear in place until the bolt is tight. The..... key.... is.... for..... assembly..... only. The crank bolt stops the gear from rotating. Once the bolt is tight, the JB can break apart or go away all together and it would still be fine

This really should be the end of the discussion. The ONLY thing that should be worried about is on resale of the car. If you're not open and forthcoming with this, that's some bad mojo. Hell, even if somehow the engine lost timing, it's not interference and can retimed very easily. I know this because I've done it multiple times.