Can anybody help me with my Ca18det
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float_6969
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Re: Can anybody help me with my Ca18det
If you put a timing belt on this motor with the valve covers off, that's a miracle. I've always had to get a big crescent wrench on the cams and rotate them to get the dots on the cam gears to line up with the dash marks on the back cover.
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Re: Can anybody help me with my Ca18det
You must've meant with the valve covers "on", right? If so, I do it all the time and the way I do it is much more simpler and exact than playing with the 39 cogs or removing the valve covers and breaking my solid sealfloat_6969 wrote:If you put a timing belt on this motor with the valve covers off, that's a miracle. I've always had to get a big crescent wrench on the cams and rotate them to get the dots on the cam gears to line up with the dash marks on the back cover.
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float_6969
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Re: Can anybody help me with my Ca18det
LOL, I did mean on!