[V8] Timing Belt Saga 3

[Dave Head]

Stop!
1. Make absolutely certain you are at TDC on the right stroke! Verify by 
removing a valve cover and checking the marks on the chain pulleys - 
they will be pointing at each other.
2. If you overtorque the cam lock you can break the bearing cap!

Kneale Brownson wrote:

>Anyway, today I got the belt off the cam pulleys as described in the manual
>and installed the driver side cam holder with the usual bit of trouble
>everything I do seems to involve.  The passenger side cam fixture doesn't
>want to go on.   I've tried to use a wrench on the cam pulley bolt as
>suggested in the manual to move the cam back and forth, but I reach a
>spring-loaded resistance just before I get the slot visible in the
>distributor base  (using a mirror)  aligned the way it should be for the
>fixture to slide in.  Would it be correct to keep pressuring against that
>spring resistance enough to get the fixture to go into place?    Seems to
>me I'm applying quite a bit of torque with the wrench.  Must be in the
>40-50 pound range.
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