[Edited on 10-05-2010 by Tony 2187]

only the pulleys on the crank and camshaft need lining up, other than that the water pump makes no difference but will need adjusting to fix the tension

cheers for that mate it helped alot,so is that the only 2 pullys that need to be lined up? and do you adjust the water pump to get the belt tighter?

and i was just woundering do i put gasket seal on both sides of the head gasket?

let me know mate cheers appreciate it

There's an arrow on the cam pulley, and one on the crank pully. Make sure the crank pulley one is pointing directly down. i.e 6 o clock. And the cam pulley is at 12 o clock. (It lines up with marks on the plastic thing, but essentially it's 12 and 6.)

That'll get piston 1 to TDC. Then pull back the tensioner and jab a screwdriver in the hole to hold it back. Slip the belt on, adjust the water pump. Turn it over by hand to make sure it's all good and badda bing badda boom.

Little trick is to mark the old cam belt at the 2 timing marks. Then when you put the new belt on you can check it's right. I used a little blob of tip-ex.

If you want any more help gimme a shout, I only did one on the same engine last week.

Gaz

[Edited on 04-01-2009 by Gazdaman]

make sure that the mark on the bottom belt pulley is lined up with the mark on the block, this is in position TDC or you can work it by the valves, not exactly sure how cant remember.

areet cheers lads, i have got a haynes manual and its got sumit about top dead centre how do i kow that the no1 piston is at tds cheers

as above just line the marks up and itll be fine

same as mine, suppose you can do it without the kit, just make sure everytings lined up on the marks near spot on,

its a 1.2 8v SOHC mate

what engine?

i am doing my head gasket and has any1 got any tips on doing the timing belt? do you need a timing tool kit or can you do it without it? cheers, mark