Roy's Garage: '90 2.4-4G64 5-spd D-50

[royster]

Anyone got good information about proper timing belt tension? Is the tensioner, alone, the only pressure or do you push the tensioner to tighten the belt a little more? I don't want to over-tighten the belt.

THANKS (as always) TO BRADMPH - this video showed me a couple of things I did wrong. Since I have to remove the valve and timing cover again, I'll be certain to follow these instructions.

Even at this, there is still no focus on the tensioner, but I get a better idea. I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets hung~up on small details like this.

Timing Belt Replacement & Distributor Reinstallation G63B
Video shows an install of a timing belt and the re-installation of the distributor.
Shows all the time mark line ups on the gears and housing and the positioning markings on distributor
to place it into position correctly.

http://www.mightyram50.net/vbulletin...tallation-G63B

[royster]

jonah was
swallowed by
a whale

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[royster]

The oil sump and pan, clean...oil sump installed

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Putting it all together

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So odd to see the truck like this.
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But it's all back together and ready for the road.

This project is finished.

[royster]

The day I took the picture on the left, I knew nothing about that engine. I know quite a bit, now.


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[royster]

This morning I went back and got down to the cam, again. I inspected everything and cleaned as I could. Between what I read on another site, and BradMPH's video, I completely re-did the timing. When it was all back together, it ran so well I could barely feel it run. The ticking is slowly fading away.

In putting it all back together, I took my time and tucked things in their places...so the engine looks even neater than the photos above. I had no sooner backed the truck out of the garage, when the phone rang: it was the photo developer telling me my prints were ready. "Timing is everything", they say...

The timing belt detail made a huge difference: while the engine ran good, yesterday, there WAS a lot of 'deep" vibration I could feel. I surmised the balance shaft was off (amazing what one tooth adds up to over several thousand rpm's of idling) and indeed, it was. By pulling the timing belt from the crank, to the oil cog, to the cam, the balance shaft remained as it should. Hence, very little vibration. I had originally done it in a reverse order. That's why the oil pump gear was off when I opened up the cover. I didn't know that, then. I do now.

At one point, with the truck out of the garage, I was ready to drive it into town to put some gas in it. Alas: the brake caliper was really seizing up, so back into the garage it went for a brake rebuild. Not sure when: though we had perfect weather today for backing the truck out and cleaning the garage, we have a severe cold front coming through for the next few days.

But the engine project is finished. What a journey that was, and one I don't regret. I'm a bit disappointed the experts here remained primarily silent, but everyone's got a life to live. There are other websites available. Besides:I got through it all, just the same.

Very good results.

[rusty bishi]

lol..give me a hand would ya.