Anybody can change the timing belt on a V70 T5 can't they? It's a piece of p**s isn't it?............Well I've managed to bugger it up.
I've just changed both belts, all the pulleys and the pump. Re-assembled everything and promptly got an engine warning light. Connected Vida/dice and it's telling me both camshafts low.
The camshafts as you know have timing marks on the outside of the pulleys which line up with the notches on the timing cover. I've also got white paint spots on the inside of the pulleys and corresponding white paint marks on the cam cover, but they are half a tooth out.
The Haynes manual says to use the ridge on the oil pump and the info on Vida says use the mark on the crankshaft pulley to line up with the tooth (for the want of a better description) on the crankcase.
Now this is the problem. The mark on the crank pulley and the ridge on the oil pump don't line up, they're half a tooth out. Also the white mark that has been painted on the crankcase, I assume for timing, doesn't help because the Vida drawing shows three crankcase teeth and I've actually got four.
It doesn't take a lot to see why I've got it wrong, does it?
Referring back to the error messages does "low" mean that the camshafts are too early or too late, with that information would it be possible to just release the belt tension and then jump the belt a tooth at a time, on the camshaft pulleys, till the timing is right.
There must be a lot of people out there who know more about T5's than I do, can you give me a clue because I don't want to miss Throckmorton on Saturday.
Thanks in anticipation.
Brian the PRAT
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