I have a B16 that just got back from the machine shop. The block was decked, and the head was milled. I have adjustable cam gears on the motor, but are set at 0. I am having alot of trouble trying to get the timing belt on correctly. Do i need to play with the cam gears or something. Its giving me to much slack at first, so that the crank will spin alittle first without cams before i can get the belt to tighten for the head and block to move together.

 

anyone?

 

Is there any difference with the crank gear? Its a B16, but there is a LS crank in the b16. I am not exactly sure if the crank gear is from a b16 or ls.

 

The gears are the same? I know it really depends on how much you shaved the black an head the B16a timing belt is the smallest on out there beside single cam and I've never had an issue with a block or head being that shaved to where you can't get a timing on it. You can always try the ls/vtec way and out a timing light on it right after just be careful not to retard or advance to much and bend any valves in teh process. By all means don't rev the thing up without knowing what the timing is and make the valves crash with each other. Hope that gives you a little insight on your problem.

 

I have not even put the motor in the car yet. I have the motor out. The pistons are 12:1 compression, and the block and head were milled/shaved to make compression reach 12:8. When i am trying to pull timing belt over exhaust cam first the teeth touches the outer parts of cam gear instead of filling in the grooves.

 

i had the same problem. i put the OEM cam gears back on and they lined up every time since, no problems whatsoever (except lack of adjustability).

 

I got it on. What i did was advance both cam gears 2 degrees. And then when i got the timing belt on, i put the timing back to stock, and it worked out good.

 

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Congrads I thought the timing belt wouldnt get tight caue of the milling of both head and block. Glade you got it solved and hope it runs hella strong for you.

 

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Congrads I thought the timing belt wouldnt get tight caue of the milling of both head and block. Glade you got it solved and hope it runs hella strong for you. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks, i will put up a post as soon as i get the car on dyno.

 

your always gonna have cam timing issues when bringing the head and block closer together via milling or decking...thats why you have adj gears...good you figured it out on your own..its the best way to learn