[A4] Cam advance or retard? (was timing belt alignment question)

[Rocket Science Racing]

This morning I put the old tensioner, which is a smaller diameter than the
new one, and the old belt, which is one tooth shorter, back on the car. It
fits exactly the same way as the new stuff, i.e. I'm a half tooth off at the
crank. So it's not the new stuff. The new belt needs to be 1 tooth longer,
in order to work with the slightly larger diameter tensioner pulley.

So do I want some cam advance, or some cam retard on my 1.8 turbo? :-)

Thanks,

st


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Kneale Brownson [mailto:knotnook at traverse.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, 24 July, 2002 21:00

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.