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when getting the timing belt aligned (a little bit here, a little bit there,a silly song and a stick of dynamite). LOL
Where are you standing right now? Is it back up and running, but you want an easier way to do it?
Did you change out the idler pulleys and tensioner?
It's a lot of different procedures and the use of special tools, so it makes it difficult to explain from my way of doing it, to the way of a DIY without the special tools.
When starting from scratch, I always align the lower idler pulley pointing toward water pump (you know how the idler pulleys are on an excenter bolt). The upper idler pulley pointing toward 1-2 cyl sprocket and the tensioner pulley loosened. Camshafts and crank at TDC.
This is the basic setting.
I start with hooking the belt around crank shaft sprocket and insert a wedge on the left side of crank, squeezing the belt tight to the sprocket.
Route the belt over lower idler, cam 4, cam 3, upper idler, cam 2, cam 1 and lastly over tensioner.
I preset the tensioner to about the right amount and rotate the engine one reveloution. Than I check so the the 1-2 cams are aligned with 3-4 cam, if not, I use the upper excenter idler to set the two pair of cams to each other.
Rotate the engine another reveloution and check the 4 cams alignment toward the crankshaft. If I need to adjust, I use the lower excentric idler to move all camshafts compared to crank shaft.
When all 5 shafts are aligned properly, I fine adjust the tensioner.
Next I install the crank pulley, hook the airmassmeter up and start the engine (to verify that the tensioner are set properly) It's quite a big difference on how the tensioner is working when rotating the engine by hand compared to when it's running.
Hope this help, otherwise send me an E-mail with your address and I send you a stick of dynamite (and a silly song)
Cheers
Anders
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