I just put my engine back together, I put the timing belt on how the book says, the cams are at TDC facing "up" with the lines facing each other lining up on the head. The crank is at TDC with the white mark lining up. I turned it on and it ran fine, but when I hit it with the timing light, it is showing the white TDC mark lining up with the marker on the dust cover, not the red one. I have to push the dizzy all the way towards the firewall for it to be close to the red mark. I dont get it. How can it be off if everything lines up. Plz Plz help

 

the timing belt is off by a tooth

 

Yup; I believe it's usually the exhaust cam that's off a tooth when it throws the line off like that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Thrillhouse &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I just put my engine back together, I put the timing belt on how the book says, the cams are at TDC facing "up" with the lines facing each other lining up on the head. The crank is at TDC with the white mark lining up. I turned it on and it ran fine, but when I hit it with the timing light, it is showing the white TDC mark lining up with the marker on the dust cover, not the red one. I have to push the dizzy all the way towards the firewall for it to be close to the red mark. I dont get it. How can it be off if everything lines up. Plz Plz help</TD></TR></TABLE>

The up marks are facing directly up yes?

The way you worded it saying the marks are 'facing each other' made me wonder

 

Yeah, I got it right, for some reason it was off a tooth but it didnt look like it, stupid me, I am just super frusterated so its hard for me to concentrate. Thx for the help tho