Originally posted by BrittB:
Originally posted by MeanGreen2:

If you tried to do the belt yourself, you probably had a problem with cam gear alignment and proper tension, unless you had the right tools [set of three...seems like I spent over $300.00]. I've seen a few where the right tools weren't used = rough idle and lots of noise.



In the Haynes manual, it shows a picture of the tool to use for cam alignment. Funny, it looks like a peice of angle aluminum to me, so that's what I used. To take up the slop because the angle was a little undersized, I added plastic shim stock to make up the .030 or so difference. Worked great, cost me nothing.






It didn't mention the crankshaft timing peg or the cam pulley holding tool...and it worked great w/o loosening off the cam pulley bolts while setting the tension?