sube_forester Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Please Help!!!! We have installed a new timing belt and water pump in my sons 1995 Legacy sedan 2.2 engine. After putting the belt on car would not start, has spark and gas but no go. We turned the crankshaft 360 degrees and tried again, same result. Marks all line up on the cam shaft gears as well as the crankshaft gear. Don't know what else to try please help with any ideas. Thank you all.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircraft engineer Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 OK - IF you have spark, try squirting a little gas down the intake and see if it fires. Go back and do the timing again (check it anyway - use this as your guide) http://www.endwrench.com/images/pdfs/2.2SingleOverWin01.pdf on page 18 - see the picture of the cam sprocket - notice the ARROW - BZZZT - wrong thing to use as "timing mark" - it's that little line CCW about 30 degrees or so (straight up in the picture). Now - the crank mark is when the KEY is DOWN - it's directly opposite the keyway. Put it pointing up right at the timing mark. Both cams - line at the notch, crank - key down (timing marks line up on top) it's for a PHASE 1 engine I don't THINK you can mess up the FUEL by doing a timing belt, so if it ran before, it should run AFTER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOthis Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 +1^...........thankfully its a non interference engine...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idosubaru Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 history - did it run before and why did you install a new belt - the old one broke or it was time? check your timing marks again, are you using the right ones? there are additional marks sometimes on the crank sprocket, are you sure you're using the right ones? if it was running and then you changed the belt and now is not running.....something isn't put together right. either something youu disconnected while you were in there is not reconnected or the timing belt isn't installed properly. check everything you touched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sube_forester Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 OK - IF you have spark, try squirting a little gas down the intake and see if it fires. Go back and do the timing again (check it anyway - use this as your guide) http://www.endwrench.com/images/pdfs/2.2SingleOverWin01.pdf on page 18 - see the picture of the cam sprocket - notice the ARROW - BZZZT - wrong thing to use as "timing mark" - it's that little line CCW about 30 degrees or so (straight up in the picture). Now - the crank mark is when the KEY is DOWN - it's directly opposite the keyway. Put it pointing up right at the timing mark. Both cams - line at the notch, crank - key down (timing marks line up on top) it's for a PHASE 1 engine I don't THINK you can mess up the FUEL by doing a timing belt, so if it ran before, it should run AFTER. O.K. my 2 sons took the old one off because it was VERY dried out and cracked, car has 160,000+ miles bought used and this might be original belt (it was Subaru). I am sure they did NOT align ANY marks when they tokk the old one off. How do we get everything aligned so the timing is back to correct? engine tries to start but will backfire. Also do we have to completely reassemble the engine or can it run with the timing belt exposed? )no alt, P.S., or AC). Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOthis Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 read the endwrench article above.......it should tell you exactly what to align.......the marks on the cams get aligned with the marks on the rear t- belt covers and use the hash mark on the crank.......if i were you i would print out the article and go step by step......its very easy to mess up the t-belt on these engines because of all the marks on the pulleys.....once you believe you have it on correctly i would go back and count the teeth (i believe between the mark on the passangers side camshaft sproket and the mark on the crank sproket there should be 44 teeth and between the mark on the drivers side camshaft sproket and the mark on the crank there should be 40.5 teeth).....i always count teeth before i crank her over just for my peace of mind........you can start the car with the belt covers off and the drivebelts off and everything.......i just dont like to run it very long..........good luck......( oh and i believe there is more than one timing belt article for the 2.2 on http://www.endwrench.com so there may be some more pointers there.......good luck!.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idosubaru Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 it's really easy. line up passengers side cam, line up crank sprocket, line up drivers side cam. install belt and make sure the cams don't rotate a tooth off (easy to do depending how you install or release the tensioner). double check AFTER you install to make sure they're still lined up. there's nothing fancy to it - make sure three marks are lined up correctly and you're done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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