[V8] Timing Belt Saga 3

[Dave Head]

Slip the belt off with it as close as possible. Then take a wrench on 
the cam pulley, line it up and slip the cam lock on.
Then you can break torque on the cam pulley's, whop 'em with a brass 
hammer or block of wood to loosen them and finish the job...

Kneale Brownson wrote:

>Here's a good one:  Following David's recommendation, I removed the
>passenger valve cover and discovered that the marks on the timing chain
>gears are not at 3-9 o'clock.  Instead they're at more like 4-10  o'clock.
>So I removed the driver side cover, where I'd already managed to install
>the cam retaining fixture, and the gears are at 3-9.  So this car, which
>started and ran fine for the 3-5K miles I've put on it so far,  had its
>last timing belt installed with the timing gears not aligned on one side.
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>How do I address this?  The passenger side cam pulley won't move enough to
>align the marks properly.
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>At 03:21 PM 10/2/2005 -0400, Dave Head wrote:
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>>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!
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>>Kneale Brownson wrote:
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>>>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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