Hi Gents,
I haven't posted on here in a while, life got in the way of Land Cruiser stuff, so it has taken a back seat for a few years.
Anyway, I still have my 80 series and up until a week ago all was fine with it. To cut a long story short, I was driving to work about a week ago, sitting in traffic idling, went to pull away and the truck starting misfiring, vibrating and kicking out white smoke. I limped it back home and have been investigating the last two weekends.
I've finally found the problem, 6 months ago I replaced the timing belt, idler pulley and tensioner from a well known supplier. My last check today before taking it to the local fuel injection specialist was to check the timing belt. What I've found, the replaced tensioner has failed, leaking oil. This has allowed the belt to jump, it is one tooth out on the IJ Pump pulley when the Cam Pulley is at BDC.
I've removed the belt and tensioner but this is where I'm unclear of what to do.... Is it safe to rotate the IJ Pump pulley back to align the BDC marks, it won't move by hand, so will have to rotate using the centre bolt.
Thanks in advance,
Brett
I haven't posted on here in a while, life got in the way of Land Cruiser stuff, so it has taken a back seat for a few years.
Anyway, I still have my 80 series and up until a week ago all was fine with it. To cut a long story short, I was driving to work about a week ago, sitting in traffic idling, went to pull away and the truck starting misfiring, vibrating and kicking out white smoke. I limped it back home and have been investigating the last two weekends.
I've finally found the problem, 6 months ago I replaced the timing belt, idler pulley and tensioner from a well known supplier. My last check today before taking it to the local fuel injection specialist was to check the timing belt. What I've found, the replaced tensioner has failed, leaking oil. This has allowed the belt to jump, it is one tooth out on the IJ Pump pulley when the Cam Pulley is at BDC.
I've removed the belt and tensioner but this is where I'm unclear of what to do.... Is it safe to rotate the IJ Pump pulley back to align the BDC marks, it won't move by hand, so will have to rotate using the centre bolt.
Thanks in advance,
Brett