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[Webby the Bear]

ps, thanks for all your help james. very much appreciated!!!

[JamesV6CDX]

Very well done mate

Just to confirm -

with crank locked at TDC, and with the gauge held between the pulleys, the marks are dead in the centre - and the tensioner set right? All torqued up, re-rotated, and re-checked?If so, happy days

Oh yes

Only thing i didnt do was torque them as i dont have a torque wrench with the low numbers. however, i did them up tight but not so much id strip them

Does your T wrench not do 40nm even?

On a play-around / learning car like Ralf, doing them to a sensible torque by hand will be fine. Make sure you get a torquewrench if you do the job for real, though

[Webby the Bear]

Very well done mate

Just to confirm -

with crank locked at TDC, and with the gauge held between the pulleys, the marks are dead in the centre - and the tensioner set right? All torqued up, re-rotated, and re-checked?If so, happy days

Oh yes

Only thing i didnt do was torque them as i dont have a torque wrench with the low numbers. however, i did them up tight but not so much id strip them

Does your T wrench not do 40nm even?

On a play-around / learning car like Ralf, doing them to a sensible torque by hand will be fine. Make sure you get a torquewrench if you do the job for real, though

oh defo will mate, thanks 

yeah my ''big bertha'' torque wrench goes down to 40nm.... however the bugger has a bigger drive than the one on the E12 socket 

[Webby the Bear]

.....and i dont have the correct adapter 

[martin42]

what size adaptor do you need?

[Webby the Bear]

what size adaptor do you need?

hi martin,

not sure mate. but to be honest it doesnt really matter anyway cos i haven't got a torque wrench that will do 25nm 

next on my list to buy though. going to get a good 'un..... the smaller version of my big bertha 

[SMD]

Well done Steve!    Are you sure you can wait till the weekend to fire her up? Don't you want to know if it runs better NOW?!

[Webby the Bear]

Well done Steve!    Are you sure you can wait till the weekend to fire her up? Don't you want to know if it runs better NOW?!

Haha to be honest mate i'm a bit exhausted from it. the fact it was my first time  and the fact i made a few mistakes and the final fact that the belt had no markings i made a right meal of it 

but yeah i defo want to fire the old boy up..... not lookin forward to reassembly. 

[JamesV6CDX]

Well done Steve!    Are you sure you can wait till the weekend to fire her up? Don't you want to know if it runs better NOW?!

Haha to be honest mate i'm a bit exhausted from it. the fact it was my first time  and the fact i made a few mistakes and the final fact that the belt had no markings i made a right meal of it 

but yeah i defo want to fire the old boy up..... not lookin forward to reassembly. 

It's a 2.5, so not even a plenum to refit.... 30 minutes work... put it together man

Kidding - taking your time whilst learning is a great thing to do

[Webby the Bear]

Haha yes. 30 min job will take me at least a day 

can i ask a quick Q........

for the most part when i was readjusting the cam positions i had the crank at 60o before TDC.

However, when i took off the belt again i noticed that they had slipped out of sync as there seems to be quite a bit of play in the cam locks.

anyway i went to readjust them but forgot to put the crank back and it was sat at TDC. The cams then took a bit of getting right cos they were just spinning right and left when i tried to get them spot on... eventually got them in place.

anyway my question is will i have done any damage when i accidentally moved the cams whilst the crank was at TDC?
i dont think so bearing in mind the engine was running with cam 1 at 4 or 5 teeth out and still worked... just. but would love your thoughts. Also i didnt force anything.


Cheers all

[TheBoy]

Worth getting adapters, about a fiver from hellfrauds. Keep the receipt, you *will* break them

[Webby the Bear]

PICS

Here's Ralf all timed up correctly..... water pump and all other things to follow when my phone decides it wants to send e mails again 




Tensioner bang on the line as it's a re-used belt:

Finally, just looking around at bits and bobs.... does this thin tube go in that small pipe.....??

[JamesV6CDX]

Is it just me / the picture / the angle - or does cam one look a little too advanced, given the crank is at TDC?

[JamesV6CDX]

Ps - that last photo looks v small, but the thing you've circled at the front is where the vaccum goes for your SAI

PPS - wtf's going on with the HT leads from the 1-3-5 bank, running under the EGR and over the top of the plenum like that? Don't recall it being like that when I took Ralfs plenum off and fixed the coolant bridge leak, prior to your ownership.. 

[Webby the Bear]

Ps - that last photo looks v small, but the thing you've circled at the front is where the vaccum goes for your SAI

PPS - wtf's going on with the HT leads from the 1-3-5 bank, running under the EGR and over the top of the plenum like that? Don't recall it being like that when I took Ralfs plenum off and fixed the coolant bridge leak, prior to your ownership.. 

loll no its just the angle of the photo i assure you theyre spot om the markson the tool

as for the leads the disspc is out so all  leads are out too... ill put it all back together soon