sooo I had just got done putting my intake cam back in, tightened the cam cover bolts down, and was putting the cam gear back on. I put the bolt on and noticed the cams had moved like 1-2 degrees... so I rotated them back to TDC... but now all the slack I had on the timing belt is gone... and the cam gear BOLT won't screw into the cam gear... wtf just happened? the tensioner tool is still in there...

 

did you pull the whole timing belt to rotate the gears or did you put a wrench on the actual cam and rotate it to line up the dowl with the gear dowl hole if that makes sense

 

well i put a wrench on the cam and a wrench on the cam gear but the cam still moves when youre tightening/loosening it... thats why it was off at all in the first place

the bolt will go in... BUT ONLY AT AN ANGLE sooo im really not sure wtf happened and why my slack is gone

 

and yeah i moved the gear to line it up with the dowel... i should have moved the cam, right? =/
that would make sense if thats why the slack is gone... im just not sure what to do now...

anyone help?

 

you need to hold the cam with a wrench while tighting to prevent it from moving also once it all tightrnd down remove the tool and turn motor over by hand and recheck the timing marks do this multiple times if it doent line up dont start the car you will have to redo the timing from scratch reload the hydro tensioner ect ect

 

and when I try to move the cam it just goes back to where it was.. im guessing its supposed to do that though when its not attached to a cam gear?

 

sooo any idea on how I can get the bolt back in?

 

ya should of moved the cam i would put it back on as long as you have your belt ziptied down to the gears you should fine but triple check everything

 

how far off of a rotation from the dowl lineing up are you

 

the dowel is like 1 degree away I kinda have to finagle it around for it to go on

 

and the cam gears are zip tied to the belt so im sure it didnt move...

 

i would just get it on and try to move the cam with a wrench while moving the gear around once its on it kind of seats itself onto the cam

 

WIN ^^^^^

That worked... tightened it to 60 ft lbs like it says to do... now just knocking on wood and praying that all went well.. gonna do the exhaust cam now

 

nice make sure you triple check the timing by rotateing the engine by hand multiple times by hand or rolling it fowards in 5th slowly pushing it