Hey everyone,
So I decided to change my 2.2 timing belt myself. It's a 1998 legacy 2.2, which is an interference engine (I believe, I've found conflicting info).
Anyhow, I removed the old belt, and also removed and replaced the cam seals.
A couple times while I was getting the driver side cam pulley off, it would slip and rotate 90 degrees either way (this pulley was under tension and didn't want to stay lined up with the mark). This happened a couple times, but I always moved it back up to where it was supposed to be. (the crankshaft and the passenger camshaft never rotated much if at all)
So I got all the seals and water pump replaced, then got my new timing belt and everything put back on.
I was very careful putting on the new timing belt (OEM belt), making sure I had it lined up right. It seemed easy because the OEM marks on it lined up perfectly with the appropriate marks on the cam pulleys and crank shaft.
(The two camshaft pulleys marks were at 12 o'clock, as well as the crankshaft mark, just like when I pulled the old belt off)
I counted the teeth on both sides to make sure everything was fine, 44 teeth on the passenger side, and 40.5 teeth on the driver side. Then I pulled the pin on my new tensioner. Everything still looked lined up correctly.
Here's where I really got worried. My manual said to rotate the cams at least two full revolutions, to be sure everything was fine and it wasn't binding.
I rotated it around, there was some resistance, but I just attributed it to the tension on the driver side cam, cause it felt about the same. I rotated the cam probably 90 degrees or so then I reached a point where there was more resistance, but not a whole lot. All of the sudden it went past that point of more resistance and I heard a nasty "clanking" sound. It kind of "slipped" past that point of a little more resistance. I rotated it another 90 degrees, then started to feel a bit more resistance again and stopped.
Now I can rotate the camshaft 90 degrees before reaching a point where there is more resistance, and I'm afraid to go past this. I get this point of increased resistance either way, so I can turn my cam between 6 and 9 o clock, but I get more resistance at either end of that.
What do you guys think? Did I bend my valves? As far as I could tell my timing was perfect and the teeth were exactly where they were supposed to be, but I'm pretty worried at this point.
I'd also have a really hard time taking the belt off and resetting things, cause the cams are 180 degrees or so past where I started from, and the crank was rotating too.
Thanks for any help.
