Timing gear pulleys don't line up when at top dead center

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Re: Timing gear pulleys don't line up when at top dead center

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Sagebrush wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:51 am IIRC don't you have to go past T1 and come up on it again to get the arrows to line up? Seems to me one one pass of T1 they line up and the next T1 they don't and when you come up on T1 again they are lined up again. I may be wrong, its been a long time since I've done a belt change.

+1 on loosening all the valve adjustments so the valves retract as far as possible to avoid hitting the piston. You'll just have to do a valve adjustment once you get the pulleys lined up but you were going to do that anyway right?
Right... every other rotation of the crank to T1 should see both timing marks line up...
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Re: Timing gear pulleys don't line up when at top dead center

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Hi, original poster here. I want to thank you all for your expertise and encouragement. It took a while and some hands on learning to translate your advice into reality, but I now have everything where it needs to be. Now on to the valve adjust.
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Re: Timing gear pulleys don't line up when at top dead center

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Re: Timing gear pulleys don't line up when at top dead center

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