Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Zetec Maintenance Cam lock tool...Timing Belt R-R ???'s

There are two ways to go on that. Getting the tool from Ford is not one of them. Ford charges like $80 and makes you wait a month.

What we did for my engine was just take a chunk of flat .25" steel and mill it down to .2" with a drill press -- it wasn't pretty but with care it can be kept accurate enough by checking your work with a micrometer.

The other thing you could try is to just stack up some blocks and feelers to add up to a total of .2".

As mentioned, this is for alignment only -- not for bracing it to undo the gear bolts.

Only for the historians:

I (with a help of a mechanic friend) did mines without the tool (and removing the camshaft cover), just by marking the sprockets together with paint.

They moved about 1/8 rotation when we removed the belt (by valve springs I guess), we turned them back by hand and put on the
new belt.
It worked (I did some 20k miles since then), so I say you can do it without the aligning tool, but next time I wouldn't try without it, esp. if you're doing it alone.

Much less trouble and much more peace of mind

Tivadar