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Timing belt screw-up


Zerk_Fitting

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96 ranger
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Timing belt screw-up SOLVED

On my 96' 2.3 I changed the timing belt and it runs like crap obviously I got the timing wrong.

So I pulled the rad, put crank pointer at TC, pulled #1 plug ac side used rubber tipped air-blower into cyl and it holds pressure so I assume it is on compression stroke. I pulled both inspection plugs on timing cover and both cam and other
have their pointer marks aligned.

This is where I don't know if it is correct the cam sproket has a sheetmetal rim on the back side. I aligned the large indentation on this rim to the inner cover pointer, and same for the oil-pump idler sproket.

Was I supposed to align the lightly stamped diamond symbol on the cam sproket rim instead of the indentation?
 
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Pictures of timing marks

Please help, my lack of knowledge is killing me on this one.

The first link is of cam timing mark alignment (warning pics are large and might take long to download)

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2652/sany0004zf0.jpg

This second pic is idler alignment.

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2984/sany0005ww9.jpg

Third pic is crank alignment on compression stroke

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/380/sany0006kb6.jpg

This is my question. Is this cam mark the one I should be aligning to the inner cover mark?

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9648/sany0007vp2.jpg
 
Solved problem

The solution is simple, but not obvious at least to me.
After quite a few searches I found other people who also aligned the wrong
marks on the two large sheaves.

The correct marks to align are the small stamped tri-angles, not the deep
highly visible stamped notches.

Both sheaves are exactly the same part
but the one on the oil-pump uses the deeply stamped notch on its back to trigger a cam position sensor attached to the oil pump.

The large easy to see notches are NOT the cam alignment marks.
The easy to grease over and cover up, lightly stamped and hard to see tri-angles are the cam and oil pump alignment marks
 

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