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Yellow94

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Feb 21, 2008
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
I did the timing belt and BS delete. The car was runnihg fine for 300 miles. Today I was driving up this hill and the car dies at a light. I tried to restart it but it would not start. I towed the car home and thought it might be the timing belt. I pulled the top timing cover and the belt looked good, i then pulled the balancer to look at the crank pully and the belt looked good there. I rotated the engine by hand and the timing belt has all the teeth and is not loose on the cam or crank pulleys. I tried to align all the timing marks but I cant. I have a screw driver in the spark plug hole and can not get the number 1 cylinder at TDC with the cam gears and crank gears aligned. I have no idea what the hell is going on. I pulled the valve cover and all the rockers move with the cams and all the rockers are tight against the valve springs. Any thought what is going on.

later
Orlie
 
Did you originally do the timing belt yourself? All the marks will only line up on every 6 rotations of the crank. Keep turning it for at least 6 counts, count by using the dowel pins above the cam gear bolts, every time they get up top thats 1 count. You will have to turn the crank a hell of a lot of turns to get the gears to roll around 6 times. Try this and then see where your marks are.
 
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