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      oh, sorry.. the cams are on the head.. The cam gears (sprockets) are not on the cams.



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      Head is on. Torquing it down was somewhat easy.A real angle gauge is something I need to buy and just have. However, a sharpie and protractor can be useful.

      now im going back out to the car to put the rear timing cover on, new tensioner, idler pulley, misc plugs, hoses, etc. So we can do the belt later tomorrow.

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      the 90* turns, or 180* (whichever they recommend) do not need to be perfect, but if you stand still, and run the length of your arm down the wrench to hold the socket for leverage, then make @ a 90* angle with your arm and the ratchet, it will definitely be good enough.


      hope it fires right up for you..


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      We did the eyeball 90* (its actually 60,60,60,10). Just put the intake support bracket on. That is fun to put back on since you do it blind(well I did)

      Waiting until later this evening to put timing belt on, tension it, change the oil, add coolant and make a sacrifice to the car gods (I think a Hyundai Accent should do) and crank.

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      I did this last spring and it wasn't bad. The worst was doing it without this forums! I had no clue on most of the stuff but I have a lot of mechanical experience.

      Good luck!

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      Oh yeah, without this forum I wouldn't have the FSM.

      everything but the belt is on. Did I ever mention that the waterpump mounting is just odd.

      I'm about to go out and change the oil, add coolant, double check everything. Just waiting for a friend to come over

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      it's all back together and timed and everything but... It's giving us difficulty cranking and turning over and it has a ton of blow by.... :/ Charles, the tech, is completely baffled.

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      blow by of what? rings, valves, head gasket?


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      no idea. I put the head gasket on properly, torqued down the head in the correct sequence. It can't be the rings since it did not have such terribly blow by before this event (losing time) happened.

      oil and coolant are not mixing. I used an oem head gasket, new head bolts. the head was skimmed, the block was scrapped clean.
      Last edited by TheDon; 05-05-2011 at 02:00 AM.

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      then how do you know you have blow by?






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