Timing belt slipping off the cam wheel?? Options

[SiriusVirus]

So the entire belt is staying in place except for the cam wheel. Passenger side motor mount is taken out and a jack is holding it up just like in the sticky guide. No covers are put on yet its just open belt waiting to be put back together. crank pulley on as well for the one guide ring. Have to wait til tomorrow night to do more work any suggestions as to why its sliding off the cam? Its pretty damn tight. Still cranking and no start. My friend is coming back tomorrow night with a compression gauge. And we are gonna take it all apart again and make sure we are at TDC for sure.

[SiriusVirus]

. Otherwise, you car will either not idle properly or more likely will not run at all. In this case, you'll need to rotate the crankshaft pulley 2 revolutions clockwise and back to the 0 degree mark. Make sure again it's at ± 0.5 degree tolerance. Recheck the hole on the camshaft timing pulley and see if it's aligned with the u-notch on the head. More likely it isn't which is why it isn't running normally. If it isn't, then we'll have to readjust it so that it is. So remove the negative terminal on the battery, put the tensioner pulley back in 'loose' and remove the timing belt from the camshaft timing pulley and make the necessary 1 or 2 tooth adjustments to bring the hole back in alignment with the u-notch. Put the tensioner pulley back in 'normal operation' mode, reconnect the negative terminal on the battery, and start it again.

Repeat this step again and again until the timing belt is correctly positioned and until the car idles normal. If you're lucky you could get it right the 1st time but for me, this took about 3 times before i got it down right to the right timing since my crankshaft turned while the timing belt was off so I had to narrow it back down to the right position.

I didnt remove them. all that was done was lining up the notch on the cam gear (all that i did to the cam gear) in the sticky the guy says something about 2 full rotations on the crank can anyone go into better detail about that?


This post has been edited by SiriusVirus: Aug 15, 2013 - 2:41 PM