illili
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The detailed version of that picture is great! I've saved that on my compy and definitely will print it out.
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The detailed version of that picture is great! I've saved that on my compy and definitely will print it out.
Thanks captain, Now I know for sure that the oil pump needs to be lined up too with the diamond. Hopefully I'll get another whack at this whole timing thing this weekend...and hopefully all goes well!Not a foolish question, but a rather foolish answer.
Ford, instead of putting the camshaft position sensor on the camshaft, decided the oil pump was a better spot.
So if the oil pump gear is not in sync with the cam+crank, it'll throw off your ignition timing and your fuel injection timing.
Believe this is true for all 95+ at least until the Duratech came onto the scene.
Hmm, the consensus is definitely that the oil pump needs to be aligned as well. One thing of possible note to everyone helping me is that my new timing belt is slightly longer than the old one but has the same distance between all the teeth. In theory the increased length shouldn't matter, so long as the teeth are the same right?When I properly aligned the oil pump gear to the diamond (when I eventually found the blasted mark under all the crud) and not the triangle it cleared my engine right up. I had a fancy scanner hooked up to it and it was kicking my ignition timing advanced 40-50°. sputters, misfires, very easy to stall in the lower rpm's, poor performance all the way around. After alignment, everything was good to go. The crank keyway was vertical on all attempts.
Took it apart and back together 3 times before I finally figured it out, put probably 4,000 miles on it running like shit because I had to.
Length is not a factor. Gear tooth count determines the ratio.i would think lenth is a factor. are u sure u have the correct belt. if anything the new one should be small due to the old being stretched from use. a trick i would have done if i didnt have to do my tension when i did mine is cut ur belt in half with wise and slide the new one on and then cut the rest of the old one off. it also helps alot with 2 people. one person to do the tensioner and the other to slide on the belt.
I don't know if the crank key way is at 12:00 since I didn't have to plull the crank pulley off. Do I need to pull it all apart again and use the TC mark on the plastic cover? Or is my cyl 4 miss more than likely caused by something else....??Ignore the dot on the crankshaft gear, just make sure the keyway is straight up. This will be TDC, I don't know what that dot is used for.