I tried to line up the belt today 3 times & it still skipped 2 teeth. Does anyone have a solution? please share.
yes. put two punches or drill bits into the first cam caps and cams to hold them in place then put the belt on.
cam caps ?:shrug:
the caps that are holding the cams on.
Ohh, i get it :idea: thanks:hi5:
F*CK! ! ! i cant align the freaking belt. I even tried to loosening one of the cams & im still off by 1 tooth. I know im doing something wrong, just dont know what!
Question; do i need to remove or will it be easier if i take off the tensioner?
how else is everyone doing it? & yes I have seached!
what i do is get the belt on the crank when the crank is lined up. then with the cams locked with the holes in the caps, i bring the belt around the tensioner, and around the water pump. when bringing it around the cams, i start at the intake cam. while working on getting it on to the exhaust gear, then while keeping things lined up and tension on the belt i will rotate the crank clockwise just slightly and work the belt onto the exhaust cam. that way it will slack the belt on the exhaust side yet keep tension on everything else. main thing is to remember is when rotating things to get the slack, make sure all three turn an equal amount to stay lined up. this may take slightly tweaking the exhaust cam in the same direction.
then of course after belt is on, when tightening the tensioner rotate the crank counter clockwise then tighten tensioner.
hope that was clear to ya and yes it sounds complicated but its really not to bad. i do it all by myself.
hope that helps good luck
Seems like I had a similar problem when I did mine many miles ago. I think I advanced the crank 1 tooth. Once I got the belt on and turned the crank everything was correct.
im gonna try to install it this friday. :rockon:
Getting the timing belt on correctly can be deceptively difficult. I would recommend reading through this carefully:
The part about the procedure that seems to be tricky is getting the belt on the camshaft gears so that the two scribe marks on the cam gears are lined up properly. When I did my belt, I did not use the method of locking the cams in place with drill bits like many people advocate.
You may have noticed that the camshafts have hexagonal lobes moulded into them near the gear ends. When I put my belt on, I put a big crescent wrench on each of those lobes. Then I got a small piece of wood and a couple vice grips and was able to position the cams very precisely and lock them in place with my crazy wrench set-up. Only then was I able to get the belt on the right way. This is what worked for me. Everyone seems to have their own way of figuring out stuff like this.
Good luck.
i had the same problem
i tried it 4 times , it really drove me nuts, the last time i got it right ,
i started by puting the belt on exhaust cam gear like the others said advance it by one tooth , i had to put the belt onto exhaust cam first cuz the tensioner would put tension on the intake cam first , once you crank the motor, it would be off by 1 or 2 teeth if you put the belt on intake cam gear first, try this a few times you would get it on
good luck
get two 5mm dowel pins, or punches, or drill bits(anything that is 5mm exactly!) right behind the cam sprockets you’ll notice the cam retainer(or cam holder or whatever you want to call it) get the sprockets as close as you can to TDC and you’ll notice that the retainer and the camshaft to have holes, put the 5mm bit and put it in, now you go after the crankshaft being at TTDC and put that fat bitch(timing belt) on and finish it up, start that bad bitch up(the car)
once you get the idea, it should start to take you less than an hour to do it
D O N E ! :whew: I have no idea how i did it but i took everyones advice. Big THANKS to everyone that helped.
good deal. thanks for letting us know :rockon: