Changing the timing belt - timing?

harchris harchris at smokesignal.net
Tue Jul 5 19:18:45 EDT 2005


Hi Gang:

The confusion has been cleared. As Tom says, I had found the correct hole, but
I was confused about TDC. In my experience TDC was always on cylinder #1. On
the V6, it must be on some mythical cylinder half way between 1 and 4 (?).
Anyways after lining up the timing mark on the flywheel, there was an obvious
hole in the 'pork chop' (to steal a phrase) and the bolt used to hold the
crankshaft would screw into it. I don't have the bolt and don't need it since
I can get a 24 mm 12 point open end wrench on the bolt at the end of the crank
to hold it in place while I tighten the camshaft bolts.

Thanks
George


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