Ok, I couldn't wait till Wednesday or Thursday night to get to this.


Got home from work about 3:40. By 3:45 I had the fan, belts and top of the housing cover off. I then turned the crank until I could see the cam sprocket line up at TDC. Then I peered down into the lower portion of the timing belt cover and there staring me in the face was another dot on the sprocket to the right.

Oh my GOSH, what a freaking IDIOT I AM!!

The bad news is, there isn't any!

The good news is the brickboard rocks, as usual.

Upon re-setting up my timing I came inside to get the torque setting for the crank pulling and was looking through the FAQ and came across a picture of what all three positions should be and well I had the bottom one completely wrong. I'm surprised it ran at all. I was a good half a sprocket off at least once I set it up correctly. Just unbelievable.

I believe what the original problem with the timing belt was that I forgot to set the tension on the tensioner when I put it all back together. Amazing it ran as long as it did the first time.

Once I put it back together and put all my tools back I ran down and cranked it a few times and it roared back to life. I can't believe that I missed that. Probably need to slow down a bit more and not rush things.

Any who, now I can continue to check for leaks and hopefully put it all back together by this weekend.

Again, thanks for everyone who chimed in. I'm so glad that this resource exists. It make me just a little bit richer.

Regards,

Matt