[V8] Timing Belt Saga 3

[Kneale Brownson]

With the belt off, Dave,  I get to that high torque you said might damage
the end blocks before the marks on the gears line up.   Again, the timing
gears on the driver side head are aligned properly.  The mark on the damper
is almost spot on.

At 05:23 PM 10/2/2005 -0400, Dave Head wrote:
>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:
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>>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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