timing belt???
timing belt???
so i am installing my cams today and none of the teeth skimped off but rather just turned and are not at zero anymore as they where when taken off...do i just turn the cam so it matches the cam or redo the timing????basically it comes down to as long as teeth on belt and cam gear didn't skip am i set to go and just have to adjust cam gears to the cams in the most comfortable postion(for me installing that is)???????
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I'd suggest you set it with all the timing marks lined up, screw driver in the hole, etc. Then when the cam sprockets are turned to where they need to be clamp the belt to the sprockets. I use small vise grips (not too tight!).
In the future if doing this again, turn the engine until all the timing marks line up, paint white marks on the sprockets and onto the belt. Then all you have to do is line up the paint marks and you are good to go.
In the future if doing this again, turn the engine until all the timing marks line up, paint white marks on the sprockets and onto the belt. Then all you have to do is line up the paint marks and you are good to go.
i had the belt zip tied...i was in class and i was thinking of the concept of the timing belt and timing marks and have a theory of how to fix this.....but not sure if it will work. Everything was as close as i could get it to "zeroed out" every where, but my tensioner tool is what created the problem of being weak. And i was scared to screw down the tensioner all the way.So im buying the cro-moly one from ams and that should make life alot easier with less worries. worst comes to worst ill retime everything....
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I never could bring myself to like using the threaded tool. I use the little pronged tool in the tensioner pulley to set belt tension. Yeah, I know, others swear by the threaded tool. I guess it depends on how you learned to do the job.
I ground a go - nogo gauge out of some scrap metal and used it to measure the space between the hydraulic tensioner and the arm. I understand that if you get the tension set so that the pin in the hydraulic tensioner slides in and out of its hole easily you have accomplished the same thing.
Pulling the hydraulic tensioner and slowly squeezing it in a vice to reinsert the pin only takes a few minutes.
I ground a go - nogo gauge out of some scrap metal and used it to measure the space between the hydraulic tensioner and the arm. I understand that if you get the tension set so that the pin in the hydraulic tensioner slides in and out of its hole easily you have accomplished the same thing.
Pulling the hydraulic tensioner and slowly squeezing it in a vice to reinsert the pin only takes a few minutes.
