[A4] Timing belt alignment question

[Rocket Science Racing]

Think of it this way: 2 pulleys are separated by "X" teeth on one side (the
non-tensioner side), and always "X" teeth on that side. Any "extra" teeth
will fall on the tensioner side and the "extra" length will be taken up by
the tensioner. So I don't see how that would make a difference.

I did check the old belt vs. new belt. The old belt has 152 teeth, the new
one 153, so it is different by one. I didn't have time to try the old one
on with the new tensioner, but a quick try showed it to be impossible to
get the old one on easily, it looks like I'll have to remove the tensioner
pulley to get it on, if it fits at all. That experiment will have to wait
until tomorrow, as I got home late tonight.

I'm starting to panic....

Thanks,

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From:	Kneale Brownson [SMTP:knotnook at traverse.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:00 PM

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.