This one's come up a few times recently, sometimes with expensive consequences:
Every time you work on or around the cam belt (changing the belt, adjusting tension, removing the cam or IP sprocket) be sure to turn the engine over by hand a couple of complete revolutions before you use the starter. Use a ratchet with 19mm socket on the crank pulley bolt and only turn the engine clockwise (as if you're tightening that bolt). You're lining up the timing marks, but also feeling for any sudden tightness that might be a valve hitting a piston.
The manual has this to say:
To add a little more detail:
First turn the crankshaft until the TDC timing mark lines up with notch on the pulley:
...then check the sprocket timing marks (If the sprocket marks are 180 degrees out, turn the crankshaft another full revolution)
IP timing sprocket: notch in metal cover lines up with spur on the threaded boss:
Cam sprocket: dimple on sprocket face (hard to see in this photo) lines up with triangular peg.
If everything lines up and you can turn the engine without drama, you're good to go.
Every time you work on or around the cam belt (changing the belt, adjusting tension, removing the cam or IP sprocket) be sure to turn the engine over by hand a couple of complete revolutions before you use the starter. Use a ratchet with 19mm socket on the crank pulley bolt and only turn the engine clockwise (as if you're tightening that bolt). You're lining up the timing marks, but also feeling for any sudden tightness that might be a valve hitting a piston.
The manual has this to say:
To add a little more detail:
First turn the crankshaft until the TDC timing mark lines up with notch on the pulley:
...then check the sprocket timing marks (If the sprocket marks are 180 degrees out, turn the crankshaft another full revolution)
IP timing sprocket: notch in metal cover lines up with spur on the threaded boss:
Cam sprocket: dimple on sprocket face (hard to see in this photo) lines up with triangular peg.
If everything lines up and you can turn the engine without drama, you're good to go.
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