popeye5

Thanks one and all, tommorrow I may return to finish the job. It did appear that the left cam was slightly off the marks when I dissassembled and removed the belt. Another confusing issue was not only white marks, but red ones on the pulleys and the block, although the actual scribe appears to be in between the red and white on most of the markings. The belts where changed once by the dealer at my expense when I had it in for warranty work on the head gasket issue. Would the belt being off one tooth on either cam be very noticeable? Thanks again

Thanks for speedy reply. Correct me if I'm wrong but none of these, crank or cams should be rotated counter clockwise with or without belt? So you're saying just turn the already once rotated cam sprocket ( from original setting that belt was removed at,with crank on mark and key pointing down) continue clockwise again till it's where it needsto be? Won't that throw the whole engine out of sync

I'm in the process of changing timing belts on my 2001 OB wagon, with 156K miles on it. All has gone well up to this point, BUT: While aliginging the new timing belt marks and marks on engine I inadvertently turned the left cam past it's mark and it did a "revolution" throwing the whole engine out of sync. I've wrenched for sometime , I'm 66, but I'm unsure as to how many more times I would need to turn the left cam clockwise to get it back in sync with the rest of the engine. And for that fact how do I tell if the crank, right cam, and left cam are all in sync? Thanks in advance for any advice you can throw my way.