Hi it's a new CARDONE 841697 distributor.
Here are 2 videos of the running engine without load. For me it don't sounds very good but i've never heard another i6 engine, in Germany there are not many US-cars and most of them are v8 engines
https://youtube.com/shorts/50InpIN4pjE?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/NAgJW6iyIOU?feature=share

Right now I'm working through the process of elimination because I don't know which corner to look in first. When I got the truck it was pulling air everywhere because all sorts of hoses were missing and the vacuum ports were all open.
What could also be is that it's the valve train with the hydraulic lifters, but I don't know the technology at all. I had before only old BMW, where you set the valves with a feeler gauge.

Last edited by ChrisD; 06/25/22 03:59 PM.