Cambelt Change - How do I know it's right?

epninety

Don't do what I did the first time - rebuilding a 16V Citroen engine, in the days when 16V engines were fairly unusual and there was no setup information available..
Very obsessed with getting the tension right, but somehow didn't lock off the tensioner properly, so it came loose a few miles down the road. Luckily I heard it start to slap and stopped before it all went horribly wrong

Anyway, serious point is if you worry a lot about the belt being right, it's easy to miss something different.

thescouselander

goldspanners wrote: »

i didnt say crankshaft, i said engine, so that the engine has completed a full revoloution,noty just the crank shaft, turn it so all cylinders have hit tdc and all valves have opened and closed.

To me (and no doubt many others) "turning the engine" means turning the crank shaft. Engine revolutions are normaly measured by revolutions of the crank shaft - for example 3000 RPM on the rev counter is 3000 revolutions of the crank shaft per min. So on a four stroke engine 1 engine cycle = 2 revolutions.

goldspanners

thescouselander wrote: »

To me (and no doubt many others) "turning the engine" means turning the crank shaft. Engine revolutions are normaly measured by revolutions of the crank shaft - for example 3000 RPM on the rev counter is 3000 revolutions of the crank shaft per min. So on a four stroke engine 1 engine cycle = 2 revolutions.

so 6 and half a dozen then.

thescouselander

goldspanners wrote: »

so 6 and half a dozen then.

I just though it best to be clear or someone reading this might have got confused and thought that had done it wrong when in fact everything is ok.