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If the cam sensor is a synchro style unit that is driven off the oil pump shaft, then yes it does matter, sort of. You either need to have the marks lined up, or you will need to reset the synchronizer to the correct position after the timing belt is replaced.If anyone is still following this crap, on a distributor-less Lima engine, does it actually matter if the oil pump drive gear (formally the distributor drive gear) is actually lined up with the mark? I can't see any logical reason the position of an oil pump gear would matter but it does still have a mark for some reason. Obviously it mattered when they had distributors, but now?
Only thing I can think of is I vaguely remember something about the cam sensor not actually being on the cam gear, which it clearly is not, but attached to the oil pump gear. Does that make it matter somehow?