[A4] Timing belt alignment question

[Kneale Brownson]

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I don't know this as a fact, but possibly one extra tooth shared by two
pulleys equals the half a tooth your present belt is off????

At 08:42 PM 07/24/2002 +0000, rocketscienceracing at attbi.com wrote:

>Doug,
>
>Thanks for the reply. But how is one more tooth (or any
>integer number of teeth) going to help? I'm 1/2 of a
>tooth off!
>
>Scott
>
> > Rocket Science Racing wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've put the new timing belt back on, and I'm having a little trouble
> with
> > > the alignment of it, it's a half a crank tooth off!
> > >
> > > I suppose I should have counted the teeth on the old belt in between
> marks
> > > on each sprocket, but I foolishly trusted the shop manual to guide me.
> >
> >
> > Yup, there are two belts for these cars, and I don't know where the VIN
> > break is.  The difference is, one belt has one more tooth than the
> > other.  You got the wrong one.
> > --
> > Douglas Frank    DigitalWhoopsCompaqImeanHP Co.
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