{"id":3080,"date":"2017-09-16T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T00:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:20:44","slug":"engine-refresh-finished-timing-belt-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/16\/engine-refresh-finished-timing-belt-day-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine refresh &#8211; finished timing belt (day 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I did the timing belt I didn&#8217;t loosen the camshaft sprockets. It wasn&#8217;t that I didn&#8217;t have the tools, I did. I had even loosened them to replace their seals. Well, turns out that if you tighten them down too early then the belt tension doesn&#8217;t get distributed around the loop.<\/p>\n<p>So, after hand testing the belt to be sure the alignment was correct it was off by a few degrees. I hoped it was close enough. I asked around the internet, hoping it was close enough. It clearly wasn&#8217;t close enough. I went back through the instructions, pulled the sprockets loose and immediately the belt load evened out. Turns out following instructions saves you a bunch of time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_140747-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_140747-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_140747-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_140747-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_140747-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_140747-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_140747-1060x600.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also spent time evaluating the various vacuum, air injection and fuel hoses. A number of them require replacing, but I&#8217;m not entirely sure what to order to deal with some of the frayed and cracked hoses. I may have to use my phone a friend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_160716-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_160716-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_160716-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_160716-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_160716-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_160716-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_160716-1060x600.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time invested, 2 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hoped close enough was close enough. It wasn&#8217;t. Then I read the instructions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[50,54],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idlecars","category-idle","tag-audi","tag-idlecars"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916_140747-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}