long weekend here, so had time to take care of the usual subby stuff after putting on the car 1500 miles

 

light leak form the oil pump, so off come the parts, used the starter trick to open the pulley bolt, worked a treat even if a a bit scary...

 

well, what do you know.... the mechanic that put the new belt for the PO 20K miles ago had the left cam off by one tooth, guess he totally missed the original mark on the crank pulley because there where all sorts of green and white marker lines al over the pulleys.

 

funny thing is that car was running pretty good other than a slightly lumpy idle. now its simply smoother lets see what it does to the mpg's which werent bad as it was.

 

new pump o-ring went in, new crank seal too as it was bone dry, that part is set.

put in there also new cam cover rubber seals as same mechanic simply cut half of the old ones as they must have swelled from the constant oil leak from the steering pump reservoir.

 

now its all dry and tidy and rear diff and G'box got new oil too

 

next in the to do list is the left front CV. might attack it today even..

TG

Sounds like a full day. Kinda nice when you get something done and don't have any problems with it after.

 

I was surprised the first time I pulled the cam covers off my '96 to see about 5 or 6 white green and orange marks on each sprocket. The strange thing was... none of them seemed to line up with any of the marks on the other sprocket.

subaru timing marks are really easy once you have done a few.

 

i like how the factory put dots, dashes, and arrows on the cams to confuse the normal mechanic.......makes it interesting and a good way to buy a car for cheap when the said mechanic doesn't have a clue to use arrow or dash or dot...

should be quite easy, too lines on cam, one line on crank pulley, just looks like this mechanic didnt even open the manual....

 

he must have used the little trianlge on the front of the pulley instead of the line at the back of the pulley as he added a bit of white to it and the cams where somehow aligned at that point.

 

that said, never understood what the little triangle was meant to signal....

 

feel like calling the PO and tell him not to give any work to this guy ever!

i think the paint marks are part of a quality inspection at the factory. not anything to do with timing. as each inspector does his job he puts his paint mark on the part inspected.

 

and somewhere along the line, some one reviews all the paint marks. or maybe random cars are selected to be reviewed.

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