On the front of the camshaft gear on each bank you will see an eye shaped washer under the securing bolt. This washer has a hole either side of the centre bolt, one hole is larger than the other. The larger hole goes to the inside (at least it does on the 40V V8) and the smaller hole to the outside. With the holes in their correct alignment, the two eye shaped washers should point towards each other. There is a cam alignment tool available to ensure you get the cams in alignment across the engine.
If you can't get the cams and crank aligned this way (do not force anything), you may need to pull the cams, but this introduces a whole heap of complication in keeping the inlet and exhaust cams in time with each other on their chain and in general timing (I think there is a mark on the exhaust cam chain cog which may assist with this)On the front of the camshaft gear on each bank you will see an eye shaped washer under the securing bolt. This washer has a hole either side of the centre bolt, one hole is larger than the other. The larger hole goes to the inside (at least it does on the 40V V8) and the smaller hole to the outside. With the holes in their correct alignment, the two eye shaped washers should point towards each other. There is a cam alignment tool available to ensure you get the cams in alignment across the engine.
If you can't get the cams and crank aligned this way (do not force anything), you may need to pull the cams, but this introduces a whole heap of complication in keeping the inlet and exhaust cams in time with each other on their chain and in general timing (I think there is a mark on the exhaust cam chain cog which may assist with this)
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When putting the new timing belt and tensioner on, get a copy of the workshop timing belt instructions and be sure to follow them carefully. It is easy to mis-time these engines by aligning the eccentric pulley and tensioner (the spring damper part is actually the tensioner) incorrectly. The eccentric pulley should get nowhere near it's top of travel.Ok, correct order for all these comments is 3, 2, 1...
When putting the new timing belt and tensioner on, get a copy of the workshop timing belt instructions and be sure to follow them carefully. It is easy to mis-time these engines by aligning the eccentric pulley and tensioner (the spring damper part is actually the tensioner) incorrectly. The eccentric pulley should get nowhere near it's top of travel.
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On the front of the camshaft gear on each bank you will see an eye shaped washer under the securing bolt. This washer has a hole either side of the centre bolt, one hole is larger than the other. The larger hole goes to the inside (at least it does on the 40V V8) and the smaller hole to the outside. With the holes in their correct alignment, the two eye shaped washers should point towards each other. There is a cam alignment tool available to ensure you get the cams in alignment across the engine.
If you can't get the cams and crank aligned this way (do not force anything), you may need to pull the cams, but this introduces a whole heap of complication in keeping the inlet and exhaust cams in time with each other on their chain and in general timing (I think there is a mark on the exhaust cam chain cog which may assist with this)
Ok, correct order for all these comments is 3, 2, 1...
When putting the new timing belt and tensioner on, get a copy of the workshop timing belt instructions and be sure to follow them carefully. It is easy to mis-time these engines by aligning the eccentric pulley and tensioner (the spring damper part is actually the tensioner) incorrectly. The eccentric pulley should get nowhere near it's top of travel.