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[ttommy]

Im having trouble getting my timing belt on it seems about an eighth too short,  all belts are 225 teeth long i have the smaller idlers too (56mm)

The heads are off a block with the lower tensioner higher up the block than the new block which has the tensioner right beside the crank pulley.

any ideas?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Should make no odds.

I assume the tensioner is slack.

Are you using the locking kit?

Do you have the DVD?

[ttommy]

Hi bro

no dvd but have sykes pickavant kit and have all tensioners ajusted so that i have max slack unless the one with the allen hole has a trick to it?

[feeutfo]

Is the belt run tight between the cam wheels? Can loose a tooth length in there i suppose, and if the belt teeth aren't quite engaged on the crank pulley with the wedge holding it. Is the spring tensioner backed right off? Needs to be set last (obviously) :-/

[ttommy]

i have tried it by the book its a flanged bottom tensioner so i have put it on anti clockwise still a mile out. clockwise is the same wont strech to get on 4th cam wheel,

closest i have got is putting it on everything except the top tensioner(not spring one), ajusted the cam wheels independently to take up the slack while still keeping them in alignment and trying to push the top tensioner down even then i still need bout an eighth of an inch more belt?

[Lazydocker]

It will definitely go, just check and re-check as you go around that you aren't leaving too much slack. IIRCC it's between the cams that it's easiest to do this.

[Marks DTM Calib]

If working clockwise then leave the lower right idler off to start.

Thread the belt and then fit the idler....you wont be able to stretch the belt over it easily.

If working anticlockwise then do the same but with the tensioner.